Noun: elk
| Singular | elk |
| Plural | elk; elks |
Sample Sentences
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In a narrow defile […] a male elk, (cervus alces, Lin.) of noble appearance, followed by twenty-two females, passed majestically under their platform, each as large as a common-sized horse. [1813, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, page 281:]
Nouns inflected like elk
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-West Germanic *elh, from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱis, *h₁ólḱis, variant of *h₁elh₁én, from *h₁el- (“deer”).
2. See also Low German Elk, German Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg; also Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”); also German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”). Doublet of Elhaz. See: Middle English Nouns '
elk', Old English Nouns '
eolc', German Nouns '
Elch', Danish Nouns '
elg', Swedish Nouns '
älg', Polish Nouns '
łoś', Russian Nouns '
лось', German Nouns '
Elen'.
Verbs referencing "elk"
Czech Nouns
los, German Nouns
Elch, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
elg.