Animals & plants

wolf

Source:*vьlkъProto-Slaviccertain

The syllabic l of *vьlkъ in five shapes: ол, ов, il, a vowelless vl, and u.

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English

wolf

Polish

wilk

vilk

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
волкvolk
volkinherited
Ukrainian
вовкvovk
ʋɔwkinherited
Polish
wilk
vilkinherited
Czech
vlk
vl̩kinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
vukвук
vukinherited
English
wolf
Distant English relative — Wolf and *vьlkъ continue the same Indo-European word.