Etymology: Loan from French le coq ‟the rooster”. That the origin of this word is ‟rooster” rather than ‟chicken” is very likely due to the fact that roosters are more colourful and therefore more salient than hens. We imagine a Carrier person seeing the chickens belonging to the Northwest Company for the first time, pointing at the flashy male, asking what it is called, and receiving the answer ‟rooster” from a French-speaking fur trader.

Chicken

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