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Where does “wolve” come from?

wolve (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.

wolve (English): To behave like a wolf; Of an organ, to make a...

Definitions

  1. To behave like a wolf; Of an organ, to make a...

Ancestry of “wolve”, step by step

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