wapiti

See also: Wapiti and wapití

English

Wapiti

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”).

Noun

wapiti (plural wapitis or wapiti)

1. (US, Canada) The American elk ( or Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.
   • 1877 April, Sanborn Tenney, The Plant-Eaters of North America, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10,

     Of deer there are in North America perhaps eight species : the black-tailed deer of the Pacific coast ; the mule-deer, and the white-tailed deer, of the Upper Missouri region and westward; the common deer of the United States east of the Missouri ; the wapiti of the northern and northwestern portions of the United States; one or two species of reindeer ; and the moose of the northern portion of the continent. […] Next to the moose, the wapiti or American elk (Cervus Canadensis) is the largest deer in North America.

   • 1904 December 6, Theodore Roosevelt, Fourth State of the Union Address,

     In connection with the work of the forest reserves I desire again to urge upon the Congress the importance of authorizing the President to set aside certain portions of these reserves or other public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the bison, the wapiti, and other large beasts once so abundant in our woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending toward extinction.

   • 1919, Saki, The Occasional Garden, in The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers,

     You see, if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden: ‘You can’t have wapiti and Darwin tulips, you know, so we didn’t put down any bulbs last year.’ As it is, we haven’t got the wapiti, and the Darwin tulips haven’t survived the fact that most of the cats of the neighbourhood hold a parliament in the centre of the tulip bed; […] .

Synonyms

• elk (North America)

Translations

the American elk

• Blackfoot: ponoká
• Cherokee: ᎠᏫ ᎡᏆ (awi equa)
• Cheyenne: mo'éhe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加拿大馬鹿／加拿大马鹿 (Jiānádà mǎlù)

• Dutch: wapiti (nl) m, wapitihert (nl) n
• Esperanto: kanada cervo
• Estonian: vapiti
• Finnish: vapiti, kanadanhirvi
• French: wapiti (fr) m
• Greek: μεγάλο ελάφι n (megálo eláfi), μεγάλη έλαφος f (megáli élafos)
• Hungarian: vapiti
• Irish: vaipití m
• Korean: 와피티사슴 (wapitisaseum)
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• Lakota: heȟáka
• Macedonian: се́верен е́лен m (séveren élen)
• Michif: biche f
• Navajo: dzééh
• Osage: ópxą
• Plains Cree: wâwâskesiw (ᐋᐧᐋᐧᐢᑫᓯᐤ)
• Portuguese: uapiti m, wapiti m
• Romanian: wapiti (ro) m
• Russian: оле́нь (ru) m (olénʹ), благоро́дный оле́нь m (blagoródnyj olénʹ), настоя́щий оле́нь m (nastojáščij olénʹ)
• Swedish: wapiti c, wapitihjort c, vapiti c
• Tagalog: wapiti
• Tsimshian: łioon
• Welsh: wapiti

See also

• elk
• moose

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.pi.ti/

Noun

wapiti m (plural wapitis)

1. wapiti

Further reading

• “wapiti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Noun

wapiti m (plural wapitis)

1. Alternative spelling of uapiti