IS THE ENGLISH GUINEA PIG A PIG FROM GUINEA, AND THE GERMAN MEERSCHWEINCHEN A PIGGY FROM THE SEA?, OR TWO OLD PROBLEMS REVISITED

• Authors: Marek Stachowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The old problem of the origins of the English name guinea pig is discussed here in the context of its equivalents in some other European languages (one of them being German Meerschweinchen).Some new suggestions concerning both components of the English name and the original meaning of the German designation are made.

Keywords

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etymology, English language, German language, Romance languages, biological terminology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-06-30

Contributors

author

Marek Stachowski