köken: Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu and reformed analogically from the feminine louve from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo.
aile: à pas de loup, avoir une faim de loup, crier au loup, entre chien et loup, faire noir comme chez le loup, l'homme est un loup pour l'homme, loulou, loup de mer, loup fouisseur, loup-garou
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷosder. Proto-Italic *lukʷos Osco-Umbrianbor.? Latin lupus Old Spanish lobo Spanish lobo Inherited from Old Spanish lobo, from Latin lupus. Doublet of lupus (“lupus”, a learned borrowing) and Lope (a proper name from Basque). Cognate with French loup, Italian lupo, Galician and Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup, and distantly…
aile: ajo de lobo, boca del lobo, el lobo muere lobo, espárrago de lobo, hombre lobo, lobanillo, lobato, lobo con piel de cordero, lobo de Tasmania, lobo de tierra
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷosder. Proto-Italic *lukʷos Osco-Umbrianbor.? Latin lupus Old Galician-Portuguese lobo Portuguese lobo Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (“wolf”), from an Oscan-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Compare Galician and Spanish lobo. Doublet of…
aile: lobacho, lobato, lobinho, lobisomem, lobito, lobozinho, entre o cão e o lobo, lobecão, lobo do mar, lobo-cerval
wolf · wolfdog · aggressive and bloodthirsty person
çekim: çoğul λύκοι · tamlayan λύκου
köken: From Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos)
aile: ο λύκος ουρλιάζει, πεινάω σα λύκος, στο στόμα του λύκου, τρώω σα λύκος, έβαλαν το λύκο να φυλάει τα πρόβατα, ο λύκος στην αναμπουμπούλα χαίρεται, χαιτοφόρος λύκος
köken: Uncertain. First attested as Early Modern Korean 늑대 (nuktay) in the Gukhanhoeeo (國韓會語 / 국한회어), 坤:65, 1896, then subsequently as Early Modern Korean 늑ᄃᆡ (nuktoy), e.g. in in the Maeilsinmun (매일신문), 23 August, 1898. Any further investigation, either via attested forms or via morphological analysis, is difficult, even though the prevalence of this word across dialects suggests it must have been in…
köken: From an uncertain root + -or. Various roots have been suggested, including bas due to the low quality of wolves' calls or from a dialectal stem bas- ("stomach").
köken: From Middle Ukrainian вълкъ (vlk), from Old East Slavic вълкъ (vŭlkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wilkás, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.
waste, loss · doom, peril (adverse or terrible fate) · wolf
çekim: çoğul hukat · tamlayan hukan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hukka (“loss, ruin”), with uncertain links to Permic and Germanic languages. The meaning "wolf", characteristic of the Eastern Finnish dialects, is originally euphemistic.
aile: hukassa, hukata, hukka perii, hukkaan, hukkaantua, Hukkanen, hukkautua, hukkua, mennä hukkaan, ajanhukka