different between caribou vs caribouskin

English

Etymology

From Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”) (compare qalipi (“to shovel snow”)), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou; it shovels snow”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???bu/
• enPR: k?r'?-b?'

Noun

caribou (plural caribous or caribou)

1. Any of several North American subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• caribou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rangifer tarandus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• boricua

French

Etymology

Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.?i.bu/

Noun

caribou m (plural caribous)

1. caribou

Descendants

• ? English: caribou
• ? Italian: caribù
• ? Irish: carabú
• ? Russian: ?????? (karibu)
• ? Spanish: caribú
  • ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Further reading

• “caribou” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• courbai

English

Etymology

caribou +? skin

Noun

caribouskin (plural caribouskins)

1. The skin of a caribou, or leather made therefrom.
   • 1959, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, issue 55, page 71:

     These lodge poles were steadied by being lashed to a couple of cross poles whose arch conformed to the inner curve of the lodge. The covering was preferably made of mooseskins sewn together although caribouskins were used if the former were not available. Sometimes the upper part of the cover was of mooseskins while caribouskins were used for the sides.