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Ocean Hedgehogs

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In portuguese, it is still the same:

    Sea urchin = ouriço do mar Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        French is rich with playful words.

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      • MacAnus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • spookex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same in Hungarian

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      • SanderTuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So victorian childeren were just being called stree hedgehogs?

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    • El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah what was up with that? Were kids spiky back then?

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      • Colalextrast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was mainly for homeless kids, as they were dirty and hunched over and slept under hedges. Which is like one of those un-fun fun facts

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      • sping@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

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  • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And hedgehog means spikepig.

    So they’re ocean spike pigs.

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    • fedtemis@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one…

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#Etymology

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      • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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’.

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    • originalkabumm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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”

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you punch them, do gold rings explode out of them?

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    • yumpsuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

      Image

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      • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mmmm, Uni Is one of my favs.

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    • IncognitoMosquito@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only one way to find out

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sea urchins? We have those on land, too, they’re called land sea urchins.

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    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we also have land seahorses

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I train them!

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  • Staden_@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that’s still their name in portuguese (ouriço do mar)

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    • flughoernchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same in German (Seeigel). Though I wondered what an “urchin” is since I learned the word. So still a TIL.

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    • borax7385@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same in Spanish (erizo de mar)

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    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I can’t remember the name in french

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      • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        its Oursin, but apparently Hérisson de mer is used too :3

        (altho it’s more rare and old-fashioned, personally i haven’t heard it)

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  • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So in Sonic Underground, the main characters are urchin urchins?

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  • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s literally the name in Danish!

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