*Audawulfaz

From *audaz + *wulfaz. The reconstruction is strongly supported by corresponding inherited names in different Northwest Germanic branches, especially Old English Ēadwulf and Old Norse Auðúlfr; Townend explicitly adduces this pair as evidence for a communal Germanic system of personal-name formation inherited from the pre-separation period (Townend 2015: 16–17). The second element *wulfaz was highly productive in Germanic personal names; its use as a name element ultimately reflects the inherited Indo-European word for ‘wolf’, *wĺ̥kʷos. Compare also the independently attested use of cognates of PIE *wĺ̥kʷos as personal names in several Indo-European traditions (Mallory & Adams 2006: 366).