mooswa

I "Bring now to me," said the young man, "poles of the hickory, logs of gijik, the cedar; bring me wigwass, the birch-bark, and the rawhide of mooswa, the moose."

The Silent Places 1904

Crab, crayfish < IE root * gerebh - ` to scratch 'crocodile < Greek krokā ` pebbles' + drilos ` worm '(because it basks in the sun on a gravel beach, giving it the appearance of a legless worm) hippopotamus < Greek hippos ` horse + potamos ` river' moose < Algonquian mooswa ` he who eats off bark 'raccoon < Algonquian arathkone ` scratcher'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4 1980