Where does “gur” come from?

gur (Northern Kurdish) comes from Proto-Iranian wŕ̥kah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian wŕ̥kas, from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos — wolf.

gur (Northern Kurdish): wolf

Definitions

  1. wolf

Ancestry of “gur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Iranianwŕ̥kahwolf
2Proto-Indo-Iranianwŕ̥kaswolf
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos →Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian wŕ̥kas →Every word from Proto-Iranian wŕ̥kah →