wolf (Canis lupus) · an animal which acts in the savage manner of a wolf · wolffish (Anarhichadidae)
çekim: çoğul lupī · tamlayan lupī
eş: hirpus
köken: Uncertain. Possibilities include: * Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”). The term may have undergone metathesis to Proto-Italic *lukʷos, which then may have entered Latin via a Osco-Umbrian language, where the change of *kʷ to /p/ is regular. Another example of a borrowing with that shift is popīna. According to the linguist Stefan Höfler, a non-metathesized Italic form may be…