User blog comment:Frozen Scorpio/issues with the "Were" spectrum/@comment-4504370-20121103181851

Actually, ƿer meant "adult (sometimes adolescent) male." But I agree with you. Sonic the Hedgewolf/Yilwolf (OE igilwulf), Tails the Foxwolf, Knux the...Echidnawolf? (There was no Old English word for echidna).