Etymology of the word for wolf in Europe

sKru4a:

I decided to look up the etymology of word for wolf. It turns out that most PIE languages in European share the same root - wĺ̥kʷos (with the exception of Swedish and the Celtic languages). Usually there's more deviation.

It is suspected that *wĺ̥kʷos meant also "dangerous".

Albanian and Greek and derived from Proto-Albanian and Ancient Greek, respectively. I coloured them the same shade of green for simplicity.

Note: I'm not sure if those are in fact the words that are used in everyday Manx and Scottish Gaelic - if somebody could confirm, that would be great.

Collection: european-animal-words - Tags: europe, words, wolf - Source: reddit.com