Thread:Bob the Wikipedian/@comment-24632516-20150327201328/@comment-3125844-20150414185107

Bob the Wikipedian wrote: Best I can do is this:

Vulpesmyrca would stem from a scientific name Vulpes myrca, in which case Vulpes is fox and myrca would be some descriptive adjective. I get the feeling the writers wanted something that sounded Scottish and made the second word up. I am trying all sorts of spellings and nothing translates well from Latin, Greek, Gaelic, or Irish. Maybe we should ask the writers. Here is what one of the writers said

"@GrimmWiki our Grimmtionary has it translated to "Black Fox" in Old English

@GrimmWiki (we had to take some poetic license...think its actually combined with some latin, too)"

https://twitter.com/jefe_miller/status/588049367132672001

https://twitter.com/jefe_miller/status/588050430422360064