{"id":21733,"date":"2021-12-17T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21733"},"modified":"2021-12-17T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:32:52","slug":"sea-swine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21733","title":{"rendered":"Sea Swine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A porpoise is a small cetacean of the family <em>Phocoenidae<\/em>, and is related to dolphins and whales.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevecorey\/50556118611\/in\/photolist-2k2tjHr-aXdP6X-5ywhno-t86PKW-2Nywrp-2m4mZv5-5fwLWg-vxibsY-2mLq6Qm-2j3Wfez-33DQ7j-888Sy8-2fK1bCb-vz3Vg7-4yk16N-XE83AE-KHryS4-aB6CMa-bhsrwD-vxi9My-9jYVhx-jQscL-uCKWhp-cDfXrq-aXdKva-oz8bw-cDfVZq-WB2Wtg-fqKUEu-cDfWBy-3tGxJv-cDfVch-cDfXed-hvWdN-2edEoEN-3tGxQP-hvWdS-66SGSq-gBD9Y-d1aBTC-qt6s6-vi2pCq-2k2TH7x-66NpPk-4Ux7N1-66SGnb-66SG5E-66NqgX-66SGDo-66Nq4c\" title=\"Eye Contact !\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50556118611_b9869506f9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Eye Contact !\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word porpoise comes from the Middle English <em>porpeys\/purpeys<\/em>, from the Anglo-Norman <em>porpeis\/purpeis<\/em>, from the Old French <em>po(u)rpois\/pourpais<\/em> (porpoise), from the Vulgar Latin <em>*porcopiscis<\/em> (porpoise), from the Latin <em>porcus<\/em> (pig) and <em>piscis<\/em> (fish) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/porpoise\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other (archaic \/ poetic) English words for porpoises, and dolphins, include: <strong>sea hogs<\/strong>, <strong>sea pigs<\/strong>, <strong>seaswine<\/strong>, or <strong>mereswine<\/strong>, from the Old English <em>meresw\u012bn<\/em> (porpoise).<\/p>\n<p>In French a porpoise is a <strong>cochon de mer<\/strong> (&#8220;sea pig&#8221;), or a <strong>marsouin<\/strong> [ma\u0281.sw\u025b\u0303], which comes from the Old English <em>meresw\u012bn<\/em> (porpoise), or from another Germanic language, such as <em>*marisw\u012bn<\/em> (porpoise, dolphin) in Old Frankish, <em>meerswijn<\/em>  (dolphin, porpoise) in Middle Dutch, or marsv\u00edn (dolphin) in Old Norse. These all come from the Proto-Germanic <em>*marisw\u012bn\u0105<\/em> (dolphin, porpoise) from <em>*mari<\/em> (sea, ocean, lake) and <em>*sw\u012bn\u0105<\/em> (swine, pig) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/marsouin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in modern Germanic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mereswyne\/Merswine<\/strong> = porpoise or dolphin in Scots<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meerscheinchen<\/strong> = guinea pig in German<\/li>\n<li><strong>marsv\u00edn<\/strong> = guinea pig in Icelandic and Faroese<\/li>\n<li><strong>marsvin<\/strong> = guinea pig or porpoise in Danish and Norwegian<\/li>\n<li><strong>marsvin<\/strong> = guinea pig in Swedish<\/li>\n<li><strong>meerzwijn<\/strong> = porpoise in Dutch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/marisw%C4%ABn%C4%85\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A porpoise is a small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, and is related to dolphins and whales. The word porpoise comes from the Middle English porpeys\/purpeys, from the Anglo-Norman porpeis\/purpeis, from the Old French po(u)rpois\/pourpais (porpoise), from the Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (porpoise), from the Latin porcus (pig) and piscis (fish) [source]. Other (archaic \/ poetic) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,108,111,116,124,10,15,26,31,33,44,55,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese","category-french","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-scots","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21733"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21743,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions\/21743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}