Etymology

wolfish

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Today it means: Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf. Full definition →

English wolf ← Middle English wolf ← Old English wulf
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wl̥kʷós?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wĺ̥kʷos
  3. Proto-Germanic*wulfaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*wulf
  5. Old Englishwulf
  6. Middle Englishwolf
  7. Englishwolf
  8. English todaywolfish

From wolf + -ish.

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