Deer modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German "Tier" and Norwegian "dyr" mean "animal". For many types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a "buck" and the female a "doe", but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species. The male red deer is a "stag", while for other large species the male is a "bull", the female a "cow", as in cattle. In older usage, the male of any species is a "hart", especially if over five years old, and the female is a
Oscar (given name) Oscar (given name) Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name derived from either Irish or Old English, via Proto-Germanic. It is cognate to Danish Asger or Asker, German Ansgar, Faroese and Icelandic Ásgeir. Oscar is the third most popular name for males born in Sweden in 2013. Oskar is ranked 51 in terms of the most popular male names in Sweden. The name may be derived from two elements in Irish: the first, "os", means "deer"; the second element, "car", means "loving", thus "deer-loving one" or the like. The name is borne by a character in Irish mythology—Oscar, grandson