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: As a word unknown in Classical Arabic, where one uses خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr), it is most commonly considered of Berber origin, the exact derivation varying. Compare Tashelhit ilf (“pig”).
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HZWLYA) / [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwk' /hūg/), from Proto-Iranian *huHkáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *suH-, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂kéh₂, from *suH-. Possibly cognate with English hog.
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…
köken: Borrowed from Ukrainian каба́н (kabán), from a Turkic language (Tatar kaban, Azerbaijani qaban, Kazakh қабан (qaban)); cognate with Turkish yaban.
köken: The origin of this word, which only exists in Czech and Slovak, is unknown. It may be derived from Hungarian kan. Other theories say it comes from the East Slavic word кабан (kaban) and would therefore be of Turkish and Tatar origin.