wolf – English noun declension

English noun forms of wolf

Noun: wolf
Singularwolf
Pluralwolves

Sample Sentences

  • He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves. [1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74:]
  • The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
  • They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
  • the bee wolf
  • “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.” [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85:]
  • If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side [1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:]
  • The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth [1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
4. Proto-Germanic *wulfaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *wulf
6. Old English wulf
7. Middle English wolf
8. English wolf
9. Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus.
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vălk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe. See: Middle English Nouns 'wolf', Middle English Nouns 'wolf', Old English Nouns 'wulf', German Nouns 'Wolf', Faroese Nouns 'úlvur', Icelandic Nouns 'úlfur', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃', Belarusan Nouns 'воўк', Bulgarian Nouns 'вълк', Polish Nouns 'wilk', Ukrainian Nouns 'вовк', Latin Nouns 'lupus', Greek Nouns 'λύκος'.

Verbs referencing "wolf"

English Nouns aardwolf, Ancient Greek Nouns λύκος, Spanish Nouns lobo, German Nouns Wolf, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ulv, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns úv'e.