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What is a pig's snout called?

Question #44081. Asked by peasypod.
Last updated Oct 15 2016.

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jbean
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jbean
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I found this with a little rooting around:

An Soc - The Snout

Besides meaning "snout", "soc" also means "plowshare", since a ploughshare roots through the soil like a pig. If you go far enough back in the language, "soc" actually meant the whole pig. Old Irish "socc" and Welsh "hwch" (pig, sow) come from Common Celtic *sukko- (pig, snout, ploghshare), from the Indo-European root *sû- (pig), which gives us Latin "sus" and English "sow" and "swine".

link http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/donncha/focal/features/pig/snout.html



Response last updated by gtho4 on Oct 15 2016.
Feb 05 2004, 9:59 PM
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TabbyTom
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An old dialect word for it is gruntle.

Feb 06 2004, 4:09 AM
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