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by twic
1120 days ago
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> Here in Norway, we call the moose for “elg.” Same in Sweden. Well, almost the same. They call it “älg”. It's very similar to the English word elk, but it means moose, though elk is of course also in the deer family. The word "elk" in English just means a moose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk#Naming_and_etymology In North America there is an animal which is not a moose, but which are "for their unusual largeness improperly termed Elks by ignorant people"! > Sadly, being such a heavy animal – it can easily weigh a literal tonne – it’s also the source of some very serious car accidents, especially on lonely stretches of roads passing through forests, for which there is a lot of on the Scandinavian peninsula. A Swedish friend told me that if you take your driving test in northern Sweden, there is an extra section about emergency stops, precisely because of moose danger. |
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk#Naming_and_etymology
> In North America there is an animal which is not a moose, but which are "for their unusual largeness improperly termed Elks by ignorant people"!
I'd say at this point in time the word "elk" in English means elk, not moose, at least in North American English. The article you linked to is in fact an article about the North American species of animal called elk, or Cervus canadensis. The quotation you cite is from 1672.