Their name also kind of sounds like a middle of the pack car brand
My chevrotain has about 10,000 miles on it, which doesn’t sound like much until you realize it’s only 4 inches tall, but it’s reliable and gets me where I want to go, which is home, because I don’t want to be around people.
Probably more etymologically so as you might expect.
You’re probably thinking of Chevrolet, which is derived from chevreuil, french for a deer.
You joke, but in Malaysia, they do have a car named after the local word for mouse deers, kancil (the “c” is pronounced as a “ch”). I learned to drive in one of those.looks like this
The Telugu name for the Indian spotted chevrotain is jarini pandi, which literally means “a deer and a pig”.
In Kannada, it is called barka (ಬರ್ಕ)
in Malayalam, it is called കൂരമാൻ kūramān
the Konkani name for it is barinka.
The Tamil term is சருகு மான் sarukumāṉ “leaf-pile deer”.
The Sinhala name meeminna roughly translates to “mouse-like deer”. This was used in the scientific name of the Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain, M. meminna.
