Talk:moosak
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I'd like to believe this, but I can't find anything besides the mention-y quote in the entry. I'm also asking for verification of the second etymology, which doesn't seem to be used in lowercase. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:58, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- Following up on this to check if any citations have become available (following a recent, now reverted re-addition by someone of this as a plural of moose), the only book I can find that uses moose + moosak has it explicitly not as English:
- 1747, Daniel Neal, The History of New-England [...] to the Year of Our Lord, 1700. To which is Added, the Present State of New-England [...], page 203:
- The Moose is a Creature, not only proper, but it is thought peculiar to North America, and one of the noblest Creatures of the Forest; the Aborigines have given him the Name of Moose, Moosak in the Plural. Of Moose there are two Sorts, ...