hedgehog
意味
- ハリネズミ
例文
Baby hedgehogs are adorable.
赤ちゃんハリネズミ、可愛いよ。
Foxes, squirrels, hedgehogs, and many other small animals live in this forest.
この森には、キツネ、リス、ハリネズミといったたくさんの小動物が住んでるんだ。
語源
hedge生け垣+hogブタ
「生け垣(hedge)にすむブタ(hog)」。垣根の下をうろつき、ブタのように鼻を鳴らす姿から「ハリネズミ」。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English heyghoge; equivalent to hedge + hog. Eclipsed non-native Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French hirchoun, herichon (“hedgehog”); and displaced earlier Middle English il, from Old English īl, iġil (“hedgehog”). In the philosophical sense, from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin. Compare typologically Korean 고슴도치 (goseumdochi) (<<+ Middle Korean 돝 (twoth, “pig, swine”)).