Wordnik ~ all the words. Halloween is just around the corner, and you know what that means: overpriced costumes and too much candy.
But let’s not forget what it also means: scary stuff! And that’s what we’ll be featuring at Wordnik all month, starting this week with a howler of a theme: werewolf words. Werewolf comes from the Old English werewulf, with wer meaning “man,” and wulf meaning “wolf.” The Virtual Linguist has an excellent post about the two Old English words for man, were and wapman. While wapman gave us man, “the only vestige of [were] in modern English is the word werewolf.” Century Dictionary definitions that might have been written by C. Peirce. Charles Sanders Peirce. Wordnik.