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
Erika (given name) Erika (given name) The given name Erika, or Erica, is a feminine form of Eric, deriving from the Old Norse name "Eiríkr" (or "Eríkr" in Eastern Scandinavia due to monophthongization). The first element, "ei-" is derived either from the older Proto-Norse "*aina(z)", meaning "one, alone, unique", as in the form "Æinrikr" explicitly, or from "*aiwa(z)" "long time, eternity". The second element "-ríkr" stems either from "*ríks" "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic "reiks") or from the therefrom derived "*ríkijaz" "kingly, powerful, rich". The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". It is a common