Name given to male deer, say? Originally, the ungulates in some faraway place (8)
I believe the answer is:
timbuktu
'some faraway place' is the definition.
(proverbially faraway place)
'name given to male deer say? originally the ungulates' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'name' could be 'tim' (short for Timothy) and 'tim' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for timbuktu that I've seen before include "Desert city in Mali" , "Oh, go to - very remote town in Mali, Africa?" , "Mali town (a remote place?)" , "Any distant or outlandish place (in Mali?)" , "Town in Mali used as a metaphor for a distant place" .)