There is a Scottish werewolf that is called a "wulver."
It comes from "wolf" and the archaic word "wer" meaning "man". A werewolf is literally a wolf-man.
You would cal a werewolf Amarak, which is the word for wolf, but from context you would understand it to be someone who's spirit animal is wolf.
Werewolf - all one word.
to turn into a werewolf wolf
He's a werewolf, meaning that he can transform at will from a human into a wolf.
A Wolf
The "Were" in werewolf comes from the old English word "wer" which meant "man". Thus werewolf could be literally translated as "man-wolf"
By technical definition, a compound word is a word made of a combination two smaller words. 'Were' is a word and 'wolf' is a word so putting the two smaller words together in 'werewolf' does, by definition, make it a compound word.
Lupus.Lupus means "wolf." "Werewolf" is "versipellis" (skin-changer). This is the word Petronius used in his novel "The Satyricon," which was written by at least 66 A.D. and describes a man who turned himself into a wolf in the moon light (Satyricon 62). See Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis and Short. "Versipellis" often means "werewolf" but can mean "anyone who changes his/her form or shape."
When a Werewolf transforms from a man to a wolf, then his eyes become more wolf-like, yes.
There is currently no accepted compound word. The name "wolf pack" is the valid form.
They can appeaar as a regular person, but can turn into a wolf and only a wolf unlike shapeshifters.