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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Tennessee Ernie Fnord)
Subject: Animal names?
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 01:41:37 GMT
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>>    Reply to: Jorma Kyppo
>>
>>It is also easy to understand why hippopotamus is "virtahepo" in
>>Finnish (for example), because it means "stream-horse" (which is
>>naturally a biological fault as it should be stream-pig).

  Well, that's a fairly literal translation of the Greek word:  
hippo=horse (as in "hippodrome" a horse racetrack), 
potamos=river (as in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers).

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