The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wĺ̥kʷos“wolf”
- Polish · derived fromwilczura“(archaic) wolfskin”
- French · borrowed fromwitzchoura
- English todaywitzchoura
PIE word *wĺ̥kʷos Borrowed from French witzchoura (obsolete), vitchoura (“witzchoura”), from Polish wilczura (“(archaic) wolfskin”), from wilczy (“wolf-like, lupine”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”)) + -ura (suffix forming feminine nouns).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*wĺ̥kʷos all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.