Where does “Guadeloupe” come from?

Guadeloupe comes from French Guadeloupe, which derives from Spanish Santa María de Guadalupe, a shrine in Spain for which the island was named.

Ancestry of “Guadeloupe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchGuadeloupe—
2SpanishGuadalupeGuadalupe (island off Baja California)
3LatinLupusA Roman cognomen
4Proto-Italiclukʷos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf

Words derived from “Guadeloupe”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos →Every word from Proto-Italic lukʷos →Every word from Latin Lupus →