Where does “wolfs” come from?

wolfs (Dutch) comes from Dutch Wolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch wulf, from Proto-West Germanic wulf, from Proto-Germanic wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos — wolf.

wolfs (Dutch): wolfish

Definitions

  1. wolfish

Ancestry of “wolfs”, step by step

wolfs traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch Wolf

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DutchWolfLupus
2Middle Dutchwolfwolf, grey wolf
3Old Dutchwulfwolf
4Proto-West Germanicwulfwolf
5Proto-Germanicwulfazwolf
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf

via Dutch S

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DutchS
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos