vilks

== Latvian == === Etymology === From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wilkás, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. The word would originally have been a descriptive nickname ('the killer, the plunderer, the destroyer'), the original name having perhaps become a taboo word. Note that similarly formed nicknames for “wolf” still occur in modern Latvian: pelēcis (“gray one”), mežainis (“forest one”), mežavīrs (“forest man”), vecbrālis (“old brother”), etc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [vìlks] === Noun === vilks m (1st declension) wolf (esp. Canis lupus) pelēkais vilks ― gray wolf vilka midzenis ― wolf's lair vilku bars ― a pack of wolves vilks gaudo, kauc ― the wolf howls vilku kaucieni ― wolf howls medīt vilkus ― to hunt wolves izsalcis kā vilks ― hungry as a wolf ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== vilcene vilcēns vilku mēnesis === Verb === vilks third-person singular/plural future indicative of vilkt === References === == Lithuanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [²ˈʋʲɪlˑks] Rhymes: -ɪlˑks Syllabification: vil̃ks === Verb === vil̃ks third-person singular future of vilkti third-person plural future of vilkti