Hm, I did some research on clownfish...
French it's poisson-clown, German it's clownfisch, Italian it's pesce pagliaccio (And if my knowledge on opera is sound, pagliaccio means clown!), Spanish it's pey payaso, Swedish it's clownfisk and in Japanese it's kumamoni...
So the Japanese name has nothing to do with clowns... But that's it... Hey, one of the Japanese words for clown/bumpkin is Inakamono... Mix kumamoni and inakamono and you get Inakumoni, a perfect Japanese name for the Pokemon!
French it's poisson-clown, German it's clownfisch, Italian it's pesce pagliaccio (And if my knowledge on opera is sound, pagliaccio means clown!), Spanish it's pey payaso, Swedish it's clownfisk and in Japanese it's kumamoni...
So the Japanese name has nothing to do with clowns... But that's it... Hey, one of the Japanese words for clown/bumpkin is Inakamono... Mix kumamoni and inakamono and you get Inakumoni, a perfect Japanese name for the Pokemon!