orignal

Borrowed from French orignal.

orignal (plural orignals)

1. (obsolete) A moose.
   • 1760, The critical review, or annals of literature, volume 9, page 299:

     Among these the orignal deserves mention. This is an animal of the size of a mule, with thick hair, of a dark brown colour in summer, and almost entirely white in winter, by many supposed to be a species of elk.

• L'Orignal (Ontario)

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Borrowed from Basque oreinak, plural of orein (“deer”). First attested in the texts of Samuel de Champlain as orignac.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.ɲal/

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orignal m (plural orignaux)

1. (Canada) moose

• “orignal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.