wkwo- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	wk^wo-
DEFINITION:	Wolf. 1a. wolf, from Old English wulf, wolf; b. aardwolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, wulf, wolf; c. wolfram, from Old High German wolf, wolf; d. Frankish wulf, wolf, in compound wer-wulf (see w-ro-). a–d all from Germanic wulfaz. 2. Taboo variant lupo-. lobo, lupine¹, lupine², lupus, robalo; loup-garou, from Latin lupus, wolf. 3. Taboo variant luk^wo-. a. lycanthrope, lycopodium, from Greek lukos,* wolf; b. suffixed form luk^w-ya. lytta; alyssum, from Greek lussa,* martial rage, madness, rabies (“wolf-ness”). (Pokorny kos 1178.)


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