wolf

• n.狼；猟師；残酷で貪欲な人
• vt. 貪欲に食べる；狼狽する
• n.（狼）人名；（イスラエル、チェコスロバキア、フィンランド、スウェーデン、ドイツ、ハンガリー、フランス、ロシア、オランダ、イギリス）狼。

PIE *wlkwo「狼」から。おそらくオノマトペに由来し、語源的にはlupine「狼」、lupin「ルパン」と同じ。

wolf

wolf: [OE] Wolf is an ancient word, which has been traced back to Indo-European *wlqwos. This, or its variant *lukwos, also produced Greek lúkos (source of English lycanthropy ‘(delusion of) turning into a wolf’ [16]), Latin lupus (source of French loup, Italian lupo, and Spanish lobo, and probably also of English lupin [14]), Sanskrit vrkas, Russian volk, Polish wilk, Czech vlk, Serbo-Croat vuk, Lithuanian vilkas, Latvian vilks, Albanian u’lk, and Armenian gail. In prehistoric Germanic it gave *wulfaz, which has evolved into German, Dutch, and English wolf and Swedish and Danish ulv.
=> lupin, lycanthropy

wolf (n.)

Old English wulf "wolf, wolfish person, devil," from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz (cognates: Old Saxon wulf, Old Norse ulfr, Old Frisian, Dutch, Old High German, German wolf, Gothic wulfs), from PIE root *wlkwo- "wolf" (cognates: Sanskrit vrkas, Avestan vehrka-; Albanian ul'k; Old Church Slavonic vluku; Russian volcica; Lithuanian vilkas "wolf;" Old Persian Varkana- "Hyrcania," district southeast of the Caspian Sea, literally "wolf-land;" probably also Greek lykos, Latin lupus).

This manne can litle skyl ... to saue himself harmlesse from the perilous accidentes of this world, keping ye wulf from the doore (as they cal it). ["The Institution of a Gentleman," 1555]

Probably extinct in England from the end of the 15th century; in Scotland from the early 18th. Wolves as a symbol of lust are ancient, such as Roman slang lupa "whore," literally "she-wolf" (preserved in Spanish loba, Italian lupa, French louve). The equation of "wolf" and "prostitute, sexually voracious female" persisted into 12c., but by Elizabethan times wolves had become primarily symbolic of male lust. The specific use of wolf for "sexually aggressive male" first recorded 1847; wolf-whistle attested by 1945, American English, at first associated with sailors. The image of a wolf in sheep's skin is attested from c. 1400. See here for a discussion of "wolf" in Indo-European history. The wolf-spider so called for prowling and leaping on its prey rather than waiting in a web.

wolf (v.)

"eat like a wolf," 1862, from wolf (n.). Related: Wolfed; wolfing.

1. Her dancing brough loud cheers， wolf whistles and applause.

彼女のダンスは耳を震わせる歓声、口笛、拍手に勝った。

2.They wolf -whistled at me，and I was so embarrased I tripped up.

彼らは口笛を吹いて私を挑発して、私は困窮してつまずいた。

3.The wolf clawed at the tree and howled the whole night.

このオオカミは爪で木を掻いて一晩中吠えていた。

4.She was fed up with the builders ' wolf whistles each morning.

毎朝、建設労働者が挑発的に口笛を吹いているので、彼女はうんざりしている。

5.He is a wolf in sheep 's clothing,outwordly kind but inwardly vicious！

羊の皮をかぶった狼で、容貌は慈悲深く、心は残忍！