Where does “coywolf” come from?

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

coywolf (English): A hybrid of a coyote and a wolf

Definitions

  1. A hybrid of a coyote and a wolf

Ancestry of “coywolf”, step by step

coywolf traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Wolf

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishWolfThe constellation Lupus
2Middle Englishwolfwolf, lupine; terrifying person
3Old Englishwulfwolf
4Proto-West Germanicwulfwolf
5Proto-Germanicwulfazwolf
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf

via English coyote

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishcoyote"Canis latrans", a species of canine native to...
2Spanishcoyotecoyote; fixer, middleman; a person of mixed...
3Classical Nahuatlcoyōtlcoyote
4Nahuatl*koyoo-tl—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos →