Vukovian

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the ideas of Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) concerning the standardization of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Noun

• Chiefly in the plural form Vukovians: a member of a group of Croatian linguists active at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century who supported the ideas of Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) concerning the standardization of the Croatian variety of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Origin

• Probably an anglicization of Serbo-Croatian vȗkovac ("Vukovian") by the addition of the suffix -ian, after the personal name of Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), from Serbo-Croatian vȗk ("wolf"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos ("wolf").