Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers. · Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces. · An ugly person.
Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).
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