köken: From Middle High German elch, elhe, from Old High German elaho, elho, elcho (hapax elach), from Proto-West Germanic *elh(ō), from Proto-Germanic *elhaz. In Early Modern German, the word had been entirely replaced with Elen (see there). In the late 18th century, the form Elk was borrowed from English elk, principally for the North American moose (then still thus called). This subsequently…
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭠𐭦𐭭 (gʿʾzn /gawazn/, “deer”), from Proto-Iranian *gavasna- (“deer”), perhaps from a suffixed form of *gā́wš (“cow”) + *Hajáh (“goat”), or from the BMAC substrate. Compare Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀 (gauuasna).
elk, moose (Alces alces) · any large deer, such as an elk, moose or wapiti · synonym of hirvenliha: meat of these animals
çekim: çoğul hirvet · tamlayan hirven
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hirvi (compare Estonian hirv, Veps hirbʹ), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *širˀwis (compare Old Prussian sirwis (“deer”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *śírˀnāˀ (“roe deer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top, horn”) (compare Latin cervus). Doublet of sarvi.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jelen, from Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-en-i-, which is often being connected with *h₁el- (“yellow-brown”). Its Slavic cognates are Polish jeleń (“deer”) or Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), other Indo-European cognates are Lithuanian élnis or álnis (“deer”), Old Irish elit (“roe deer”), Welsh elain (“hind”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)…
elk (Eurasia), moose (North America) (Alces alces)
çekim: çoğul jávorszarvasok
köken: jávor (“a kind of deer; bison”) + szarvas (“deer”). The word jávor is of uncertain origin, perhaps a borrowing from German, compare German Auer or Auerochs (“an extinct type of large wild cattle”).