köken: 16th century, from Stachel (“spine, spike”) + Schwein (“pig, swine”), a calque of Latin porcus spīnōsus, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ἀκανθόχοιρος (akanthókhoiros).
köken: Borrowed from Italian porcospino, from Vulgar Latin *porcospinus, calque of Ancient Greek ἀκανθόχοιρος (akanthókhoiros), from ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”) + χοῖρος (khoîros, “pig”).
a porcupine, large rodent of the families Erethizontidae and Hystricidae
çekim: çoğul stekelvarkens
köken: 1708, from stekel (“spine”) + varken (“pig”), perhaps through German Stachelschwein (1556), eventually after the Romance family of terms to which belong Italian porcospino, English porcupine. A slightly earlier Dutch word was ijzervarken (literally “iron pig”), whence Afrikaans ystervark.