Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one…
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And hedgehog means spikepig.
So they’re ocean spike pigs.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
They were also bred for food and brought into Ireland by Normans. Irish people called them ‘Gráinneog’ (gran-nyog), meaning ‘little ugly thing’.
originalkabumm@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Spike originate in indo european and meaned sharp point, pig derives from proto western germanic for piglet (piggo) So they are called “ocean sharp pointed piglet”
fedtemis@feddit.dk 3 months ago
Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂