Comment on Ocean Hedgehogs

qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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 ⁨month⁩ ago

    French is rich with playful words.

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  • MacAnus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hérisson kinda sounds like oursin, I wonder if it evolved from it. (The word not the animal)

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh right, the image was talking about hedgehogs and not porcupine so the hérisson (probably from hérissé?) and not the porc-épic!

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      • MacAnus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah :)

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• spookex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same in Hungarian

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  • SanderTuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same in German: Seeigel

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      • Haaveilija@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Same in Finnish: Merisiili (meri = sea, siili = hedgehog)

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