Is there any Celtic example for PIE *wlkWos?
This form is regularly present in Balto-Slavic (vilkas, vlIkU), Indo-Iranian (vrka, v&hrka, toponym Hyrcania) and Albanian ulk.
In Latin and Greek it seems to there be a metathetic form: *wlkWos > *lukWos (lu:pus, lykos), but Greek form could be some deviant dialectal form, or non-Greek substratum, even as Latin that shows a deviant -p- for kW (Osco-Umbrian loanword?) and long u. Sabinian Hirpus (cf. Hirpinus) may be <*wlkWos (alternatively, could be cognate of hircus "buck"), and Latin also have vulpe:s "fox".
I dont know the Hittite forms, is there something like *wulkuwash, walkuwash? It could explain the Greek Giant Alkyo:neus (>*alkuwo- <*walkuwo-).
German has deviant *wolfaz, instead of expected
*wolxwaz, but there is ON ylgr <*wulkWi:s "she-wolf". *wolfaz can be dialectal or some deviant development, through dissimilation or assimilation (cf. four, five).
Beside *wlKwos, there are possible evidences of a form *wlp-, that would link Latin vulpe:s "fox", Lithuanian vilpis^ys "wild cat" and the Germanic *wulfaz.It would be a parallel development of same *wlkW, or some compound *wlkWo-p...-?
Irish has fael, and Armenian gayl, could expect a common souce *wailos?
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