Vukovian

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wĺ̥kʷos“wolf”
2. Serbo-Croatian · derived fromvȗk“wolf”
3. Serbo-Croatian · derived fromvȗkovac“Vukovian”
4. English todayVukovian

Probably an anglicization of Serbo-Croatian vȗkovac (“Vukovian”) by the addition of the suffix -ian, after the personal name of Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), from Serbo-Croatian vȗk (“wolf”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”).

Words from the same roots