Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/werawulf

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *wer (“man”) +‎ *wulf (“wolf”).

Noun

*werawulf m

1. wolf-man, werewolf

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*werawulf
Genitive	*werawulfas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*werawulf	*werawulfō, *werawulfōs
Accusative	*werawulf	*werawulfā
Genitive	*werawulfas	*werawulfō
Dative	*werawulfē	*werawulfum
Instrumental	*werawulfu	*werawulfum

Descendants

• Old English: werwulf, werewulf
  • Middle English: werwolf
    • English: werewolf
    • Scots: werwolf, warwolf, warwoof
• Old Saxon: werwulf
  • Middle Low German: warwulf
    • Low German: Warwulf
    • → Icelandic: varúlfur
    • → Faroese: varúlvur
    • → Norwegian: varulv
    • → Swedish: varulv
    • → Danish: varulv
• Old Dutch: *werwulf
  • Middle Dutch: wēerwolf
    • Dutch: weerwolf
      • Afrikaans: weerwolf
• Old High German: werwolf
  • German: Werwolf
  • Luxembourgish: Wierwollef
• → Old French: garwaf, garval, garvalf
  • ⇒ French: loup-garou
    • → English: loup-garou