marsvín
Faroese
noun
Definitions
- a guinea pig (rodent)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse marsvín (dolphin) derived from German Meerschwein (guinea pig, porpoise) inherited from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną (dolphin, porpoise, sea pig, cetacean, dolphin porpoise).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*mariswīną
Gloss
dolphin, porpoise, sea pig, cetacean, dolphin porpoise
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
鯆
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Meer German
- Meerschwein German
- Meerschweinchen German
- Schwein German
- marsvin Norwegian Bokmål
- *mariswīną Proto-Germanic
- marsvin Swedish
- marsvin Norwegian Nynorsk
- mereswin Old English
- marsvín Old Norse
- marsvin Danish
- merswīn Middle High German
- *mariswīn gmw-pro
- *mariswīn Frankish