"A tengerimalacok nem disznók."

Translation: Guinea pigs are not pigs.

[vytah]

malac - piglet
tenger - sea
tengeri - sea (adj)
tengerimalac - lit. "sea piglet", analogous to German Meerschweinchen or Polish świnka morska

[vvsey]

Piglets from overseas, indeed.
And an archaic name for "corn", also from America, is "tengeri".

[Judit294350]

Don't know about "archaic" my family uses "tengeri" by default - and grows the stuff.

[cosmo-pedant]

Do we have an Iowa connection here?

[Bastette54]

Thanks for that explanation, I was puzzling over that word. Sea-something, but I didn't know "malac."

[chirelchirel]

Oh, so the Finnish word 'marsu' must come from those (through Swedish marsvin).

[Emile-_-]

In French we say "cochon d'Inde" which means Indian pig lol it's interesting to see how it translates in different languages

[Antonis106693]

In Greek we say "ινδικό χοιρίδιο" (indikó chirídio), which means "Indian piglet". It's similar enough to French

[Nab918927]

Shouldn't "The" be dropped for general statements?