loup-garou
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French loup-garou
Pronunciation
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Noun
loup-garou (plural loup-garous)
- A werewolf.
- Brinton
- The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
- Brinton
French
Etymology
From Old French leu garoul, a pleonastic compound of leu (“wolf”) + garoul (“werewolf”); the latter from garulf, from Frankish *wariwulf, from Proto-Germanic *werawulfaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
loup-garou m (plural loups-garous)
Descendants
- → English: loup-garou
Further reading
- “loup-garou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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