In portuguese, it is still the same:
Sea urchin = ouriço do mar
Hedgehog = ouriço cacheiro
Porcupine is porco-espinho; literally, thorn pig.
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.
And hedgehog means spikepig.
So they're ocean spike pigs.
Wikipedia says hedgehogs are called that, because they live in hedges, not because they look like one...
They were also bred for food and brought into Ireland by Normans. Irish people called them 'Gráinneog' (gran-nyog), meaning 'little ugly thing'.
Litterally the danish word; søpindsvin. 😂
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"
So in Sonic Underground, the main characters are urchin urchins?
If you punch them, do gold rings explode out of them?
Mmmm, Uni Is one of my favs.
Sea urchins? We have those on land, too, they're called land sea urchins.
I train them!
we also have land seahorses
that's still their name in portuguese (ouriço do mar)
Same in German (Seeigel). Though I wondered what an "urchin" is since I learned the word. So still a TIL.
Same in Spanish (erizo de mar)
Now I can't remember the name in french
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)
That's literally the name in Danish!
