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fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 个月前

Ocean Hedgehogs

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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    In portuguese, it is still the same:

    Sea urchin = ouriço do mar

    Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro

    Porcupine is porco-espinho; literally, thorn pig.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      French

      Sea urchin: oursin (“small bear” kinda)

      Porcupine: Porc-épic (epic pork!) which sounds like porc et pics (pork and spikes)

      • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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        French is rich with playful words.

      • MacAnus@sh.itjust.works
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        Hérisson kinda sounds like oursin, I wonder if it evolved from it. (The word not the animal)

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

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            Yeah :)

    • spookex@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      Same in Hungarian

      • SanderTuit@lemmy.world
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        Same in Dutch: zeeëgel.

        • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Same in German: Seeigel

          And porcupine is Stachelschwein, literally “thorn pig”

          • Haaveilija@lemmy.world
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            Same in Finnish: Merisiili (meri = sea, siili = hedgehog)

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    So victorian childeren were just being called stree hedgehogs?

    • El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee
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      Yeah what was up with that? Were kids spiky back then?

      • Colalextrast@lemmy.world
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        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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          Yet another reminder that the past was the worst.

      • sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldBanned
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    And hedgehog means spikepig.

    So they’re ocean spike pigs.

    • Greasecat@feddit.dk
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      Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂

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      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”

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#Etymology

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

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      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
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        Mmmm, Uni Is one of my favs.

    • IncognitoMosquito@beehaw.org
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      Only one way to find out

  • Kushan@lemmy.world
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    Sea urchins? We have those on land, too, they’re called land sea urchins.

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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      we also have land seahorses

    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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      I train them!

  • Staden_ スタデン@pawb.social
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    that’s still their name in portuguese (ouriço do mar)

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

    • borax7385@lemmy.world
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      Same in Spanish (erizo de mar)

    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works
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      Now I can’t remember the name in french

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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)

  • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe
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    So in Sonic Underground, the main characters are urchin urchins?

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    That’s literally the name in Danish!

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