werewolf

Signification (Anglais)

A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

Concepts

loup-garou

lycanthrope

garou

bzou

loup-brou

Synonymes

lycanthrope

wolfman

loup-garou

werwolf

pike

turnskin

pickerel

wolf

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Traductions

Werwolf

hombre lobo

weerwolf

λυκάνθρωπος

licantropo

lobisomem

lupo mannaro

home llop

licántropo

kurt adam

licantropo

lycanthropus

βρυκόλακας

uomo-lupo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɛːwʊlf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: werwolf

Hérité de ancien anglais: werewulf

Appartenant à néerlandais: weerwolf

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Warwulf

Appartenant à allemand: Werwolf

Appartenant à danois: varulv

Appartenant à suédois: varulv

Appartenant à finnois: vironsusi

Appartenant à français: garou

Appartenant à Frankish: *werawulf

In summary

From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). By surface analysis, were- + wolf. Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi.
Compare also French garou, in loup-garou, French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”), Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”), all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.