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by vonnik 57 days ago
The interesting thing about “Algvandringen” is that you can hear “Elk wandering” in it, showing the evolutionary similarities of two Germanic languages.
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Älg and Elk are really quite similar words. Ä and E are very close in swedish.
And 120 years ago Älg would have been written Elg [1].

[1] https://8sidor.se/kronika/2026/04/spraket-blev-lite-lattare/

Elk meant moose until English speakers came to north America and started calling wapitis for elk. A lot of animals in areas that was colonized are named like that.