Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *AudawulfazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_audawulfaz
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The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European WorldJ. P.MalloryD. Q.AdamsOxfordOxford University Press2006Antiquity of Diction in Old English and Old Norse PoetryMatthewTownendE. C. Quiggin Memorial Lectures 17CambridgeDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.2015*wĺ̥kʷoswolf
propnmasculinea-stema male given nameFrom *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.