warg

Reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien, from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”); compare also Old English wearg.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːɡ/

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:

     Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together [...].

   • 1993, "jbatka", Multiple colors for PC compatible (on newsgroup rec.hack)

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

• dire wolf

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werg̑ʰ-.

warg m

1. wolf

• IPA^(key): /vark/

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga

From Old Norse vargr, fron Proto-Germanic *wargaz.

• IPA^(key): /warɡ/ (example of pronunciation)

warg m

1. wolf
2. wheelbarrow

• gvarj
• hwȧri
• wærg
• wåri
• vari
• vare