piggsvin
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a porcupine
- (dialectal) a hedgehog
Etymology
Compound from Swedish pigg (spike, tooth) + Swedish svin (pig, hog).
Origin
Swedish
svin
Gloss
pig, hog
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
豚
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Svinhufvud Swedish
- jordsvin Swedish
- myr Swedish
- myrpiggsvin Swedish
- pigg Swedish
- svin Swedish
- svininfluensa Swedish
- svinstia Swedish
- vildsvin Swedish
- vårtsvin Swedish
- svín Old Norse