Wapiti, elk and moose

[Benjamin Barrett]

In passing, I caught several seconds of Rachael Ray's "La Belle Ville"
of her "Rachel's Vacation" show.

I'm not sure if I caught it correct, but I think she introduced
wapiti, a dish served in a Montreal restaurant, as being the Inuit
word for moose.

Because moose (Alces alces) are known as elk in Europe while elk
(Cervus canadensis) is a different species in NA, it's hard to keep
track of it all, but Wikipedia gives wapiti as meaning Cervus
canadensis and coming from Cree while saying that moose derives from
Eastern Abnaki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapiti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose

My main interest was that I'd never heard wapiti actually in use. FWIW
BB

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