Meaning

noun any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

noun Austrian composer (1860-1903)

noun German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós? Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos Proto-Germanic *wulfaz Proto-West Germanic *wulf Old English wulf Middle English wolf English wolf Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus. Cognates Cognate with Scots wouf,…

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