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husky (HUHS-kee) - n., a dog of any of various compact, thick-coated Arctic breeds developed as sled dogs.



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The name is not restricted to North America, but is now used of, for example, Siberian huskies. This is a shortening of the original term husky dog, where husky is a alteration and shortening of Eskimo -- attested dialectical variations include Uskee, Uskimay, Uskemaw, and Huskemaw -- all from Canadian French Esquimaux, which is either via Spanish esquimao/esquimal or directly from a Cree dialect, probably Montagnais/Innu, word ayaškimew/ayassime·w, which originally meant the Mi'kmaq of Labrador but became applied to Labrador Inuit, by either extension or mistake. [Sidebar: Eskimo is a deprecated name for the various Inuit and Yupik peoples, because for a long time it was believed that the root was an Abenaki word meaning "eater of raw meat." This is not in fact true -- it means "showshoe-weaver," compare Ojibwe aškime· and Cree aškime·w, to weave snowshoes -- but the sense of disparagement remains and it is generally counseled that you not use it. Husky, however, remains acceptable.]

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caribou (KAR-uh-boo) - n., any of several North American subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), a large deer of the Arctic tundra and northern boreal forests, having large hooves and long branched antlers usually on both sexes.



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Another large cervid, this one being the only cervid that gets domesticated, both for meat and transport -- though I've only heard of this happening with Old World reindeer and not New World caribou. There are around 20 recognized subspecies of reindeer, though the populations tend to blend into each other, and there is ongoing discussion on whether to reorganize them into six (or so) separate species, and if so how to sort them. The name dates from 1670, earlier form caribo being later replaced by French Canadian form caribou, both from Mi'kmaq qalipu, from Proto-Algonquian *mekālixpowa, literally "it shovels snow", from *mekāl-, to scrape + *-ixpo-, snow, so named because caribou dig through snow to reach fodder in winter.

---L.