elk

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,  🇨🇬,  🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from ,  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, variant of  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from ..

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
 * 2) Any of the subspecies of the moose (, alternatively named  to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
 * 3)  Any moose, the largest member of the deer family.
 * 4)  , the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
 * 5)  Sambar.

Usage notes
Elk originally referred to the moose. The wapiti was named elk by European explorers in North America, who thought it resembled the moose.

The word elk is now commonly used in the same way as the word is used for the subspecies of the. The only difference here is that it refers only to a single subspecies, while refers to several subspecies of the.

Noun

 * (, syn. ).

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1)  everyone; everybody

Determiner

 * in elk geval — “in every (i.e. any) case”
 * in elk geval — “in every (i.e. any) case”

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from +  +.

Determiner

 * 1) each; every

Usage notes

 * The Dutch determiners elk and are entirely interchangeable. They do not exhibit the slight distinction that is usually made between English  and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  everyone; everybody

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  each, every
 * 2)  some, many

Etymology
Apparently from, though it is not found before 1475 and the phonetic development is unexpected, though compare dialectal.

Noun

 * , moose