To separate between persons with similar or equal names they used patronymes or toponyms, i.e. names from places of origin.
It derives either directly from "wilk" (wolf) or from toponyms with this stem.
Exonyms and endonyms can be names of places (toponym), ethnic groups (ethnonym), languages (glossonym), or individuals (personal name).
More than most toponyms, as linguistic items hydronyms are very conservative, with successor peoples often retaining the name given a body of water.
Asterisk, relation only known through a toponym.
Many of the toponyms of this region became names and concepts in the new history of mankind that was created by archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The geographical contents delimit the region and locate its boundaries by depicting the hydrography and traditional topography (toponymic glyphs and toponyms) of the area of interest.
Through toponyms or through a characteristic vegetation or allotment even places that had not been used as settlement area for more than one generation might have been remembered.
