different between wolflike vs wolven

English

Etymology

wolf +? -like

Adjective

wolflike (comparative more wolflike, superlative most wolflike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a wolf.
   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 62,^[1]

     And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.

Synonyms

• lupine
• wolven
• wolfish

Anagrams

• flowlike, fowl-like, fowllike

English

Etymology

From Middle English wolven, *wilven, *wulven, perhaps continuing Old English wylfen (“wolfish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wulf?n (“wolfish”), equivalent to wolf +? -en. Piecewise doublet of lupine, wolf being a cognate of Latin lupus and -en being a doublet of -ine.

Adjective

wolven (comparative more wolven, superlative most wolven)

1. Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
   • 2004, Marilyn Mattie Brahen, Claiming Her:

     But the shepherd does protect the sheep from the wolf: therefore, few fall to feed the wolven cubs, the remaining sheep living long to rear more lambs and provide us with wool.

   • 2009, Kate Douglas, Wolf Tales VIII:

     Not a very wolven gesture, but somehow apropos.

   • 2011, Gill McKnight, Indigo Moon:

     “What I mean is, this marking you and hiding you away, it's very wolven. [...]"

Noun

wolven (plural wolven)

1. One who is wolflike in appearance or character.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lv?(n)/
• Rhymes: -?lv?n

Noun

wolven

1. Plural form of wolf

West Frisian

Noun

wolven

1. plural of wolf