French
Sea urchin: oursin (“small bear” kinda)
Porcupine: Porc-épic (epic pork!) which sounds like porc et pics (pork and spikes)
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qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
In portuguese, it is still the same:
Sea urchin = ouriço do mar Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro
French
Sea urchin: oursin (“small bear” kinda)
Porcupine: Porc-épic (epic pork!) which sounds like porc et pics (pork and spikes)
French is rich with playful words.
Hérisson kinda sounds like oursin, I wonder if it evolved from it. (The word not the animal)
Oh right, the image was talking about hedgehogs and not porcupine so the hérisson (probably from hérissé?) and not the porc-épic!
Yeah :)
Same in Hungarian
Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.
Same in German: Seeigel
Same in Finnish: Merisiili (meri = sea, siili = hedgehog)
spookex@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
In Latvian it’s just
Hedgehog = Ezis
Sea urchin = Jūras ezis (Literally sea hedgehog)
Same almost for the porcupine tho, it is called dzeloņcūka, which basically translates to barbed pig.