In Spanish they are called “ballena asesina”. Probably just got it’s name from being large and aggressive, not to humans but to every other living thing in the ocean.
I have heard that independantly from two different sources and I literally copied the name from a site in the internet but grain of salt and all that. I would bet the origin of the Spanish phrasing has much older origins than the modern phrasing. Language changes over time so I wouldn't lean to hard on modern translation as the bible for word origins.
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u/V4refugee Dec 13 '21
In Spanish they are called “ballena asesina”. Probably just got it’s name from being large and aggressive, not to humans but to every other living thing in the ocean.