Talk:hippos

I have removed the see also link to ίππος (the modern Greek for "horse") as it is irrelevant. Even discounting the fact that at Wiktionary we do all the see also stuff on the singular, non-inflected (lemma) form of the word; "hippo" is an English shortening of the English word "hippopotamus", meaning "A large, plant-eating African mammal that spends most of the day living in water.". This English word derives, via Latin, from the Ancient Greek words "ἵππος" "horse" and "ποταμός" "river, stream"; together meaning "riverine horse". Neither the Ancient Greek "ἵππος" nor the modern Greek "ίππος" (which are separate languages, just like Old English and modern English are) means "hippo" or "hippopotamus" in Greek. Thryduulf 16:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)