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
scoundrel, villain, blackguard, bastard, degenerate · Term of abuse
çekim: çoğul canalhas
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder. Latin canēs Latin canisder. Vulgar Latin *canālia Italian canagliabor. Portuguese canalha Borrowed from Italian canaglia, ultimately equivalent to cão + -alha.
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.
köken: From Early Modern Korean 되야지 (twoyyaci), 도야지 (doyaji). Appears to be related to Middle Korean 돝 (twòth). Perhaps from unattested *돌 (*dol, “pig, swine”) + -아지 (-aji, “diminutive suffix”) with a development similar to 말 (mal) and 망아지 (mang'aji) with the latter's dialectal and historical forms such as Korean 매아지 (maeaji) and Middle Korean ᄆᆞ야지 (moyaci), ᄆᆡ야지 (moyyaci), which seem to phonologically…
swine, pig (mammal) · wild boar · inkblot (a blot of ink)
çekim: çoğul disznók
köken: Borrowing from an Oghur language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash сысна (sysna, “pig”), Eastern Mari сӧсна (sösna, “pig”). Dialectal gyisznó retains an older form of the word.
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),…