Beowulf
Old English
proper noun
Definitions
- (poetic) Beowulf
Etymology
Compound from Old English bēo (I am, I become, I will be, bee) + Old English wulf (wolf, wulf), beadu (battle) + Old English wulf (wolf, wulf).
Origin
Old English
wulf
Gloss
wolf, wulf
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
狼
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *badwō Proto-Germanic
- *bijō Proto-Germanic
- *wulfaz Proto-Germanic
- Earnwulf Old English
- Wulfstan Old English
- beadu Old English
- beobread Old English
- beoceorl Old English
- beogang Old English
- beomodor Old English
- beowyrt Old English
- bēo Old English
- feldbeo Old English
- werwulf Old English
- wulf Old English
- wulfheort Old English
- wylfen Old English
- Æþelwulf Old English
- bee Middle English
- wolf Middle English
- Boje Danish
- uodil Old High German
- *wulf gmw-pro
- Bōjo Old Frisian