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>>But yes - in Peru they are. For the rest of the world, the gunea pigs are bred to be used as, well, guinea pigs :). In Serbian, the domestic word is "zamorac" - "za-" meaning "for-", and "moriti" - to kill (same root as in nightmare; Morija was some Slavic god of plague or whatever).
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>Interesting. I looked up nightmare and got "from the old English for an incubus or goblin". How did slavic languages get a similar root?

Same general family of Indo-European languages. Generally, Slavic languages share a lot of roots with Sanskr(i)t (sp?).