Sally Caves wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe" <joe@...>
>
>
>> Sally Caves wrote:
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Steg Belsky scripsit:
>>>>
>>>>> Does that mean that in Old English they talked about not just
>>>>> _werewolves_, but _wifewolves_ too?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Probably wifwulf. The extra "e" is used mainly by Wulfstan.
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>> I assume he meant the modern English descendent of it.
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> LOL! Well, as far as I know, there is none! :) The *hypothetical*
> modern
> English descendent.
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>
Of a hypothetical Old English antecedant, of course.