pig (Sus scrofa) → woodlouse 18 realizations FAMILY: Indo-European
ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 36553)
type Complex derivation
language Catalan
lexeme 1 porquet
lexeme 2 porquet de Sant Antoni
meaning 1 piglet
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
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comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 36555)
type Complex derivation
language Dutch
lexeme 1 varken
lexeme 2 varkensbeest
meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
direction →
meaning 2 (Belgium) isopod, woodlouse
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comment

Also muurvarken (Southern Dutch) 'wood-louse', lit. 'wall pig'
ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 36556)
type Complex derivation
language Dutch
lexeme 1 zeug
lexeme 2 kelderzeug
meaning 1 sow
direction →
meaning 2 (Netherlands, mainly used in Gelderland, also Brabant) woodlouse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

'cellar sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 36557)
type Complex derivation
language Dutch
lexeme 1 mot
lexeme 2 steenmot
meaning 1 sow
direction →
meaning 2 (Northern, mostly used in the east and north of the Netherlands) woodlouse, isopod
reference <personally collected data>
comment

'stone sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 36529)
type Complex derivation
language English
lexeme 1 sow
lexeme 2 sowbug
meaning 1 female pig
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference OED
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 36552)
type Complex derivation
language French
lexeme 1 cochon
lexeme 2 cochon de saint Antoine
meaning 1 pig
direction →
meaning 2 (Artois, Flandre, Champagne, Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Lorraine, Désuet) wood-louse

"De gros crustacés à l'aspect de « cochons de saint Antoine » ( cloportes ), divisés de la tête à la queue en trois lobes, et aussi en trois lobes de la gauche à la droite, et que, pour cette double raison, on nomme des Trilobites, erraient aux alentours des rivages primitifs ; […]." — (L'Enseignement chrétien : revue d’enseignement secondaire, 1928, p. 126)
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Jean-François Michel, Dictionnaire des expressions vicieuses usitées dans un grand nombre de départemens et dans la ci-devant Province de Lorraine, Nancy, 1807.
Henri Adolphe Labourasse, Glossaire abrégé du patois de la Meuse, notamment de celui des Vouthons, chez l'auteur, 1887
Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne : pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne), D. Guéniot, 1998.
Jules Joly & Gérard Hayart, Hommes et traditions populaires en Flandre-Artois, Martelle éditions, 1991.
Denise Poulet, Au contact du picard et du flamand: parlers du Calaisis et de l'Audomarois, A.N.R.T. Université de Lille III, 1987.
Colette Dondaine, Trésor étymologique des mots de la Franche-Comté : d'après l'atlas linguistique et ethnographique de la Franche-Comté, Société de linguistique romane, 2002
ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 36551)
type Complex derivation
language Galician
lexeme 1 porquiño
lexeme 2 porquiño de santo Antón
meaning 1 piglet
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference <personally collected data>
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 36549)
type Complex derivation
language Jèrriais (Jersey Norman French)
lexeme 1 trie
lexeme 2 trie d'bouais
meaning 1 sow
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

'wood sow'
ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 1581)
type Derivation
language Latin
lexeme 1 porcellus
lexeme 2 porcellio
meaning 1 pig
direction →
meaning 2 wood louse
reference Glare: 1405
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 36530)
type Polysemy
language Middle English
lexeme sowe
meaning 1 sow; a female pig
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference MED
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 36543)
type Derivation
language New Latin
lexeme 1 porcus
lexeme 2 porcello
meaning 1 pig, especially a young one
direction →
meaning 2 genus of woodlice in the family Porcellionidae
reference <personally collected data>
comment

Coined by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille (1762 - 1833) in
Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita : iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata (1804).


Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A. 654: 341 pp. http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf
ACCEPTED Realization 12 (ID: 36554)
type Complex derivation
language Occitan
lexeme 1 porquet
lexeme 2 porquet de crota
meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference CNRTL
comment

'cave piglet'
ACCEPTED Realization 13 (ID: 36558)
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 свинка
lexeme 2 мокрица-свинка
meaning 1 dim. from свинья 'pig'
direction →
meaning 2 (rare) wood-louse (Porcellio scaber)
reference <personally collected data>
comment

Вредители сельскохозяйственных культур и лесных насаждений / Под ред. Васильева В. П.. — К.: Урожай, 1974. — Т. II. — С. 108.
ACCEPTED Realization 14 (ID: 36542)
type Polysemy
language Slovenian
lexeme prašiček
meaning 1 pig (Sus scrofa)
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference <personally collected data>
comment

Zoologija nevretenčarjev. Zbirka Naravoslovni atlasi. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1993, 48
Mršić, Narcis; Novak, Tone (1995). Vzorčenje tal in določanje talnih živali. Ljubljana: Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo. str. 41.
Ralph Buchsbaum, Lorus J. Milne (1971): Nižje živali : Nevretenčarji brez žuželk. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 283.
ACCEPTED Realization 15 (ID: 7642)
type Derivation
language Spanish
lexeme 1 cochino
lexeme 2 cochinilla
meaning 1 pig
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference DRAE
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 16 (ID: 36531)
type Complex derivation
language Spanish
lexeme 1 chanchito
lexeme 2 chanchito de tierra
meaning 1 piglet
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference DRAE
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 17 (ID: 36546)
type Complex derivation
language Swedish
lexeme 1 sugga
lexeme 2 gråsugga
meaning 1 sow
direction →
meaning 2 wood-louse
reference SAOB
comment

'grey sugga'
ACCEPTED Realization 18 (ID: 36545)
type Complex derivation
language Welsh
lexeme 1 moch
lexeme 2 moch coed
meaning 1 pig
direction →
meaning 2 (South Wales) woodlice
reference <personally collected data>
comment

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