Words that come from Proto-West Germanic wulf

210 words across 52 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic wulf — including wolf, Wolf, wolves, werewolf, wolfish, Wolverine, wolverine, wolfhound.

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English (102)

German (15)

Dutch (11)

Danish (5)

Old English (5)

Afrikaans (4)

Old French (4)

Italian (3)

Proto-West Germanic (3)

Swedish (2)

French (2)

Middle High German (2)

Old High German (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Japanese (2)

Russian (2)

Malay (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Spanish (2)

Middle English (2)

Old Saxon (2)

Portuguese (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Old Frisian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

West Frisian (1)

Albanian (1)

Estonian (1)

Slovene (1)

Turkish (1)

Galician (1)

Czech (1)

Polish (1)

Armenian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Latvian (1)

Greek (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Georgian (1)

Faroese (1)

German Low German (1)

Romanian (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Pennsylvania German (1)

Middle French (1)

Kazakh (1)

Frankish (1)