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
Red Deer, Alberta Crossing was gradually abandoned. The first train from Calgary to Edmonton passed through Red Deer in 1891. The Cree peoples called the river on which Red Deer stands "Waskasoo Seepee", which translates to "Elk River". However, British traders translated the name as "Red Deer River", since they mistakenly thought elk were European red deer. Later, the settlers of the area named their community after the river. The name for the modern city in Plains Cree is a calque back from English of the mistranslated, "mihkwâpisimosos" literally "red type of deer" while the name of the river itself is still "wâwâskêsiw-sîpiy"