Lykos

This name can also easily be derived from the Greek noun λύκη (lyke) meaning "light, morning twilight":

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- see the entry for Lykos at Pavlos' Etymologica: http://web.archive.org/web/20120325073626/http://www.etymologica.com/page16.htm (in English)
- λύκη (lyke) meaning "light, morning twilight":
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=start&lookup=lukh&lang=greek (in English)
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lux#Etymology_1 (in English)
• https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%BB%CF%8D%CE%BA%CE%B7 (in English)

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This word is sometimes variantly transcribed as 'luke'. If you apply the transcription rules for modern Greek to it, then it would be transcribed as 'lyki'.

This name also means 'wolf' in Ancient Greek. It is a form of Lukos, the Greek version of Lupus, which is Latin for wolf.