marsvin

From German Meerschwein (“porpoise, guinea pig”).

• IPA^(key): /marsviːn/, [ˈmɑːˌsviːˀn]

marsvin n (singular definite marsvinet, plural indefinite marsvin)

1. guinea pig
2. porpoise

• (porpoise): tumler

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• Marsvin (hval) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From German Meerschwein (“porpoise, guinea pig”).

• IPA^(key): /maːr.sviːn/, [ˈmaːʂ.ˌʂviːn]

marsvin n (definite singular marsvinet, indefinite plural marsvin, definite plural marsvina or marsvinene)

1. a guinea pig (rodent)

“marsvin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Meerschwein (“porpoise, guinea pig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːrsʋɪn/

marsvin n (definite singular marsvinet, indefinite plural marsvin, definite plural marsvina)

1. a guinea pig (rodent)

“marsvin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Swedish marsvin (“porpoise”), from Middle Low German mersvīn and German Meerschwein, from Old High German meriswīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn, from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną; equivalent too Meer (“sea”) +‎ Schwein (“pig”). First attested in 1538^[1].

Guinea pig sense borrowed from German Meerschweinchen, compound of Meer (“[over]sea”) +‎ Schwein (“pig”) +‎ -chen (diminutive suffix).

marsvin n

1. guinea pig (rodent) [since 1638]^[1]
2. (archaic) a porpoise, a mereswine (small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae) [since 1538]^[1]

   Synonym: tumlare

• försökskanin (“guinea pig (test subject)”)

• marsvin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• marsvin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)