different between moose vs bison

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?os, IPA^(key): /mu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: mousse

Etymology 1

Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

Noun

moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (non-standard, jocular) meese)

1. (US, Canada) The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

   We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.

2. (informal) An ugly person.

Usage notes

• The usual plural of moose is moose; compare the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant. Other plurals are rare and non-standard: mooses (with the usual English plural-forming suffix -s) and meese (jocularly formed by analogy to goose ? geese).

Synonyms

• (largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus)): elk (British), Newfoundland speed bump (Canadian, humorous)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: mús
• ? Khmer: ????? (muuhs??)
• ? Korean: ?? (museu)
• ? Persian: ???? (mus)
  • ? Arabic: ????? (m??)
• ? Thai: ??? (múus)
  • Thai: ??????? (gwaang-mûut)

Translations

See also

• moose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Japanese ??? (“girl”).

Noun

moose

1. (US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
   • 2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree (page 279)

     In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.

   • 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 75)

     Even the lowest ranked serviceman, because of his salary, benefits, and status as an American occupationaire, could afford to “maintain a 'Moose' and still take care of his other obligations.

References

Ojibwe

Noun

moose (plural mooseg)

1. worm
2. caterpillar

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English mous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mus]

Noun

moose (plural mice)

1. mouse

English

Etymology

From Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch w?sent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??s?n/
• Rhymes: -a?s?n

Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons)

1. A wild ox, Bison bonasus.

   Synonyms: wisent, European bison

2. A similar North American animal, Bison bison.

   Synonyms: American bison, (imprecise) buffalo, (imprecise) American buffalo

Translations

Further reading

• bison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Ibson, binos, bions

French

Etymology

From Latin bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.z??/

Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

Descendants

• ? Russian: ?????? (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (bís?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bi.so?n/, [?b?s?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bi.son/, [?bi?s??n]

Noun

bis?n m (genitive bis?ntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• bison in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

Noun

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison