wilkis

== Old Prussian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wilkás, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Cognate with Lithuanian vil̃kas, Latvian vilks and Proto-Slavic *vь̑lkъ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwʲê̝ɫkəs̪/ === Noun === wilkis m (zoology) wolf === References === Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997), “wilkis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological Dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873), “wilkis”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 205