Editing Backpack (section)

==Terminology==
[[File:Mountain Jack and a Wandering Miner .jpg|thumb|A miner carrying a backpack during the [[California Gold Rush]]]]
[[File:Rucksack Schweizer Armee 1960er a.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Swiss army]] integrated bearer (internal) frame backpack ({{Circa|1960}}; front)]]
[[File:Rucksack Schweizer Armee 1960er b.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Swiss army]] integrated bearer (internal) frame ({{Circa|1960}}; front)]]

The word ''backpack'' was first recorded in the United States in 1914 (OED). ''Moneybag'' and ''packsack'' were used prior, and now occur mainly as [[Dialect|regionalisms]].

The word ''rucksack'' is a German [[loanword]] mainly used in the US, UK, and other Western countries by hikers and campers. In Middle High German ''ruck(e)'' means "back" (dorsum), which led to the Upper German word ''ruggsack''. In modern German the word "der Rucksack" is commonly used.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Rucksack |title=Rucksack |website=Duden |access-date=22 June 2020}}</ref> The name rucksack is [[cognate]] with the Danish ''rygsæk'', Norwegian ''ryggsekk'', Dutch ''rugzak'', Afrikaans ''rugsak'', Swedish ''ryggsäck'', and Russian ''рюкзак'' (''rjukzak'').

The word ''knapsack'' was the usual name for a rucksack or backpack up until the middle of the 20th century.

Alternative names include [[haversack]] from the German ''Hafersack'' meaning "oat sack"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haversack |title=Haversack |website=Merriam-Webster |access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref> (which more properly describes a small cloth bag on a strap worn over one shoulder and originally referred to the bag of [[oats]] carried as horse fodder), ''[[:wikt:Kraxe|Kraxe]]'' (a German rucksack with a rigid framework), and ''bergen'' (a large load-carrying rucksack, from a design issued by the British Army during the [[Second World War]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1982-11-144-1|title=National Army Museum: Bergen rucksack, War Department issue|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=24 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224161641/http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1982-11-144-1|url-status=dead}}</ref>