köken: From Middle High German swīn, from Old High German swīn (akin to Old Saxon swīn), from Proto-West Germanic *swīn. Compare Low German Swin, Swien, Schwien (Schweyn), Dutch zwijn, English swine, Danish svin (also comparable to Latin suīnus and to Polish świnia).
köken: Originally imitative of the noise a pig makes.
aile: avoir des yeux de cochon, avoir élevé les cochons ensemble, avoir gardé les cochons ensemble, caractère de cochon, cochon de lait, cochon de mer, cochon d'Inde, cochon marron, cochonnaille, cochonne
köken: From Byzantine Greek γουρούνιν (gouroúnin), earlier γουρούνιον (gouroúnion), from Koine Greek [Term?], from a diminutive of Ancient Greek γρώνη (grṓnē, “grunt”), from γρῦ (grû, “a small sound”).
aile: αγριογούρουνο
Τα γουρούνια είναι ευχαριστημένα όταν παίζουν στη λάσπη.
Ο άντρας της είναι σκέτο γουρούνι και πήγε να με χτυπήσει όταν τόλμησα να της μιλήσω.
pig (esp. Sus scrofa domesticus) · female pig, sow · pig (a dirty, unhygienic person; also, a villainous man; colloquially also an unattractive female)
çekim: çoğul cūkas · tamlayan cūkas
köken: From Proto-Baltic *kyaw-, *kyū-, from a palatalized version (perhaps by onomatopoeia, by imitating this animal's sound) of Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *kū- (“to howl, to shout; cf. kaukt “to howl””). A parallel, non-palatalized version is probably reflected in placenames like Kūkas, perhaps originally a region with many wild boars. An even further palatalized version (where *ky > *ḱ > *š > Latvian…
piglet (a young pig that is not yet middle-aged) · pig (a disgusting or slovenly person)
çekim: çoğul põrsad · tamlayan põrsa
köken: From Proto-Finnic *porcas, from Proto-Finno-Permic *porćas, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *párćas or possibly Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (compare Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos), Latin porcus, Northern Kurdish purs and Lithuanian paršas). Cognates include Finnish porsas, Livonian pūoraz, Votic põrzõz, Ingrian and Karelian porsas, Veps porzaz; Erzya пурцуз (purcuz) and Moksha пурхц (purxc),…
köken: Back-formation from Dutch varken (“pig”), either by reinterpreting the singular as a plural, or from the actual plural varkens by rebracketing it as vark + -ens. From Middle Dutch varken. Ultimately from an old diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *farhaz.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svinьja, probably from early *svīnī f, from an adjectival form *svinъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *swīˀnas, rom Proto-Indo-European *suH-.