A moose; a large cervid mammal of northern regions, also called an elk in North American usage.
From Spanish 'alce,' derived from Latin 'alces,' which came from a Scandinavian or Northern European language. The word traveled south through trade and contact with northern peoples.
The Latin word for moose came from Scandinavian languages because moose were so common up north that southern Europeans only learned about them through contact with northerners—it's like how 'kayak' came from Inuit languages because Eskimos invented them!
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