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A sow is a female pig. It has exactly the same meaning as "Sau" in German, and even sounds the same. "Pig" is "Schwein" in German.

And Schwein is probably where the word swine comes from.

It’s quite a cromulent word for a female pig.

Is "pork"? There's a layer of English that has decidedly Germanic origins; see also "legal doublets".

porc is french, generally english meat animals turn french when you kill them to eat them - no joke.

we were told in class that the meat is called what the nobility called it and the nobility spoke french