Yes they are related and share a common ancestor.
Wart hog.
The cousin to the pig would be a wart hog.
Warthog, not Wort Hog. It's a wild pig, as the "hog" part might suggest. See here: http://www.answers.com/topic/wart-hog
The denotation for the word "hog" is a domesticated pig or any of various mammals related to or resembling the pig.
A wart hog is an African pig with large curved tusks and a flattened head. Its tusks may be as two feet long!
They have four toes on each foot.
A hog is not a pig when the hog isn't domestic.
Wild boars, wart hogs, peccaries.
a pig of a hog of some sort jk :) XD
just like the animal....Wart, like the thing you get can get on your finger (freeze-away, lol) and Hog, like what you call a pig...
The scientific name for a Wart Hog is Phacochoerus africanus.
NO! a hog is a pig. A hog is a mammal. A duck is a water bird. A BIRD! NOT A PIG!