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…
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.
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”).