> (Remember - "Americans" probably didn't come up with those new (or
re-used)
> names, some settler (English, French, Spanish, German, Pole, Irish,
you name
> it) did. "Americans" had their own names for animals before the
white man
> came...)
As it happens, 'moose' is an Abenaki word (which 'red-tailed hawk' presumably isn't). Quite why they chose to use that instead of the perfectly good English word 'elk' - or, for that matter, why they chose to call a completely new animal an 'elk' is another question...
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