OldMtnMan wrote:You have something wrong with elk.
Wapiti is not a German word. They may use the word but it comes from the American Indians. Specifically, the Shawnee and Cree tribes.
In most of Europe what you call "Moose" is called Elk. Was early settlers in America who made the error in naming. The European term elk pertaining to "Moose" was written down is believed to have been in the First Century B.C., when Julius Caesar called it alce, pronounced al-see. By the beginning of the 8th century A.D. the word appeared in Middle English as elch, elh, or eolh or, at the end of the 15th century, as elke—each a minor phonetic variant of the Latin original. So you can see the name Elk for "Moose" is way older than American English, so that is actually the correct name for a "Moose", as seen in his translation of Moose as Elch in table..
Would be better if they renamed them in game from Elk to Wapiti, but by using Wapiti he is showing common sense by eliminating the error early American settlers made a long time ago IMHO.