different between wolf vs wolve

English

Etymology

From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ?ulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz (compare Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv), from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os (compare Sanskrit ??? (v??ka), Persian ???? (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian ???? (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek ????? (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo?olf
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?lf/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /w?lf/, [w???f], [w??f]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /w?lf/, [w?wf]
• enPR: wo?of, IPA^(key): /w?f/ (now nonstandard)
• enPR: w?lf, IPA^(key): /w?lf/ (obsolete)
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

wolf (plural wolves)

1. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

2. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

4. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
5. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
6. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
7. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

8. A willying machine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

Synonyms

• loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover (Southwestern US dialects)

Hypernyms

• (large wild canid): Canis lupus, canid

Hyponyms

• (large wild canid): she-wolf, wolfess

Coordinate terms

• (large wild canid): dingo, dog (members of Canis lupus not called wolf); coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Ido: volfo (also from German)

Translations

Verb

wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)

1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Synonyms

• (devour, gobble): gulp down, wolf down

Translations

Further reading

• wolf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• flow, fowl

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, *wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf (plural wolwe)

1. wolf

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz. Cognate with German Wolf, Dutch wolf, English wolf, Icelandic úlfur.

Noun

wolf m

1. (Carcoforo, Formazza, Gressoney, Issime, Rimella and Campello Monti) wolf

References

• “wolf” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Hyphenation: wolf
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

wolf m (plural wolven, diminutive wolfje n, feminine wolvin)

1. wolf, undomesticated Canis lupus

2. one of many other canids of the family Canidae, especially of the genus Canis

Hypernyms

• hondachtige

Hypernyms

• hond

Holonyms

• roedel

Derived terms

Related terms

• welp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wolf

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf m

1. wolf, grey wolf

Inflection

Derived terms

• w?erwolf

Descendants

• Dutch: wolf
  • Afrikaans: wolf
• Limburgish: wólf

Further reading

• “wolf (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wolf (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wulf, woulf, wolfe

Etymology

From Old English wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wulf/

Noun

wolf (plural wolves, diminutive wolfy, wolfie)

1. wolf, lupine
2. terrifying person

Descendants

• English: wolf
• Scots: wolf, woulf, wouff

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf m

1. wolf

Descendants

• Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: bolf

  Mòcheno: bolf

  Udinese: bolf, bölf

• German: Wolf
• Hunsrik: Wollef
• Luxembourgish: Wollef
• Pennsylvania German: Wolf
• Vilamovian: w?f
• Yiddish: ??????? (volf)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wolf/

Noun

wolf m (plural wolfa)

1. wolf

Declension

Derived terms

• Wolfgang

Descendants

• Middle High German: wolf
  • Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: bolf

    Mòcheno: bolf

    Udinese: bolf, bölf

  • German: Wolf
  • Hunsrik: Wollef
  • Luxembourgish: Wollef
  • Pennsylvania German: Wolf
  • Vilamovian: w?f
  • Yiddish: ??????? (volf)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Noun

wolf c (plural wolven, diminutive wolfke)

1. wolf

Further reading

• “wolf”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From inflected stem of wolf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Verb

wolve (third-person singular simple present wolves, present participle wolving, simple past and past participle wolved)

1. To behave like a wolf.
2. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 784:

     he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last light is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.

Anagrams

• vowel