Moose in Sweden

The animal bearing the scientific name Alces alces is known in North America and New Zealand, as the moose. Moose is both singular and plural unlike goose, which in the plural is geese. The word moose is a borrowing from one Algonquian language, with the possible meaning of "stripping off"[2]. The word moose first entered English in 1606 from Captain Thomas Hanham's Mus, and in 1616 from Captain John Smith's Moos, with possible mutual reinforcement in usage.[3]
The British English name for Alces alces is elk, with cognates in other Indo-European languages, for example elch in German and łoś in Polish.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose

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