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Where does “wolfie” come from?

wolfie (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.

wolfie (English): Diminutive of wolf

Definitions

  1. Diminutive of wolf

Ancestry of “wolfie”, step by step

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