Ocean Hedgehogs

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• qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In portuguese, it is still the same:

  Sea urchin = ouriço do mar Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro

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  • 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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  • 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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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So victorian childeren were just being called stree hedgehogs?

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  • El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Colalextrast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And hedgehog means spikepig.

  So they’re ocean spike pigs.

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  • fedtemis@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • yumpsuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Mmmm, Uni Is one of my favs.

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  • IncognitoMosquito@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Only one way to find out

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• Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    we also have land seahorses

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I train them!

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• Staden_@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • flughoernchen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same in Spanish (erizo de mar)

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  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now I can’t remember the name in french

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s literally the name in Danish!

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