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Werewolf

//ˈwɛəɹwʊlf// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

    "Near-synonym: dogman"

  2. 2
    a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again wordnet

Etymology

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

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