Upon looking up the etymology of Wolfie’s Old Country surname, I found no results at first. So, I instead looked for surnames with the meaning “wolf”, and found two that were almost correct: the Italian “Lupo” and the Romanian “Lupu”. Tracking down the origins of “Grigori” and “Anca” lead me to conclude that Romanian was the way to go. In order to determine if “Lupom” could be reasonably extracted from the Romanian word for wolf, I employed Google Translate, and got interesting results.
As you can see, the author of this chapter appears to have conflated the noun form of “wolf” with one of the verb forms, the verb form of “wolf” meaning “to consume a large quantity of food in a short amount of time”; given this chapter’s emphasis on how much a were has to eat to maintain their metabolism, however, I am uncertain as to whether this is actually a mistake on the author’s part, or entirely deliberate.
The point is, Wolfie is of Romanian descent, and therefore both Latin and Slavic, and that honestly explains a lot.
Upon looking up the etymology of Wolfie’s Old Country surname, I found no results at first. So, I instead looked for surnames with the meaning “wolf”, and found two that were almost correct: the Italian “Lupo” and the Romanian “Lupu”. Tracking down the origins of “Grigori” and “Anca” lead me to conclude that Romanian was the way to go. In order to determine if “Lupom” could be reasonably extracted from the Romanian word for wolf, I employed Google Translate, and got interesting results.
As you can see, the author of this chapter appears to have conflated the noun form of “wolf” with one of the verb forms, the verb form of “wolf” meaning “to consume a large quantity of food in a short amount of time”; given this chapter’s emphasis on how much a were has to eat to maintain their metabolism, however, I am uncertain as to whether this is actually a mistake on the author’s part, or entirely deliberate.
The point is, Wolfie is of Romanian descent, and therefore both Latin and Slavic, and that honestly explains a lot.
Semirelated, have the author’s of the comic proper ever looked up the etymology of the name MacBride?
It’s
really
quite
fascinating.
Oh for… here’s that first link, only to somewhere that’ll let you actually see it.