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Unfortunately for your theory, Jazzoctopus, hippopotamus comes from the Greek hippos = horse and potamos = river. Hippopotamus therefore equals river horse. Quite close to the German in fact.
Presumably the Ancient Egyptians knew about hippopotami before they knew about horses. Did they call horses land hippopotami?
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