köken: From Middle High German merswīn, from Old High German meriswīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną; equivalent to Meer + Schwein. Compare archaic English mereswine.
synonym of porquinho-da-índia · guinea pig (volunteer for an experiment)
çekim: çoğul cobaias
köken: From Old Tupi çobaîa (foreign), from a clipping of Old Tupi saûîasobaîa (guinea pig, literally “foreign tree rat”). The change of ⟨ç⟩ (pronounced /s/) to ⟨c⟩ (pronounced /k/) is irregular and likely stems from a misreading or misprint. Compare Spanish cobaya. The figurative sense is likely a semantic loan from English guinea pig.
guinea pig (rodent) · a porpoise, a mereswine (small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae)
çekim: çoğul marsvins · tamlayan marsvins
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish marsvin (“porpoise”), from Middle Low German mersvīn and German Meerschwein, from Old High German meriswīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną; equivalent too Meer (“sea”) + Schwein (“pig”). First attested in 1538. Guinea pig sense borrowed from German Meerschweinchen, compound of Meer (“[over]sea”) + Schwein (“pig”) + -chen (diminutive…