@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 1 month agoOcean Hedgehogslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1639arrow-down12
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•1 month agoAnd hedgehog means spikepig. So they’re ocean spike pigs.
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoWikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#Etymology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThey were also bred for food and brought into Ireland by Normans. Irish people called them ‘Gráinneog’ (gran-nyog), meaning ‘little ugly thing’.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoSpike 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”
And hedgehog means spikepig.
So they’re ocean spike pigs.
Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂
Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#Etymology
They were also bred for food and brought into Ireland by Normans. Irish people called them ‘Gráinneog’ (gran-nyog), meaning ‘little ugly thing’.
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”