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Can't leave without mentioning rhinoceros's: rhino = nose, keras/ceras = horn!!
If you look at the etymology of hippopotamus doesn't it mean "big water animal"? Hippo is "big or large", "pot" is "water" (potable), and amus relates to animal, or animate. Is my analysis flawed?
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I was always taught that hippopotamus meant "river horse"
Well, in German hippo is Nilpferd, literally Nile horse. Though I don't really see how a hippo looks much like a horse. Maybe a horse with a weight disorder, I guess. . .
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Max is right - "river horse"
Hippus = horse (as in hippodrome). Dunno about potamus but - must mean river.....
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hey, c'mon guys! some genius came up with Homo sapiens sapiens to differentiate us from Neandertal and dem other ancient sapiens.
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hippos is Greek for horse. Potamos is Greek for river. Kuda Nil is Indonesian for hippopotamus. Kuda is Indonesian for horse. I'll leave you to guess what Nil is Indonesian for.  Bingley
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Homo sapiens sapiens seems like rubbing one's knowledge into some others species' face.Probably just as well that no other species is currently able to understand it, then!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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"like rubbing one's knowledge into some others species' face"
Not the context to slip a roonerspism in!
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