wolf child

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wolf child

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Calque of German Wolfskind and Lithuanian vilko vaikas. First attested in the 1990s.

noun wolf children

A German street child, typically an orphan, who lived in East Prussia at the end of World War II.
Similar: little German

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noun human child raised by wolves

Português	criança-lobo
Deutsch	Wolfskind
Русский	волчий ребёнок volčij rebjónok

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@misc{wolf_child_2026,
  title = {wolf child},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wolf%20child},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}