Volk

 

From Middle High German volc, from Old High German folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, Proto-Germanic *fulką.

Cognate with Dutch volk, English folk, Swedish folk, Norwegian Bokmål folk, Norwegian Bokmål folk, Icelandic fólk and Danish folk. Doublet of Pulk.

• IPA^(key): /fɔlk/

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• Homophone: folg (not for all speakers)

Volk n (strong, genitive Volkes or Volks, plural Völker, diminutive Völkchen n or Völklein n)

1. (collective) people, nation, folk, tribe, race (group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language)
2. people, population, citizens
3. (possibly dated) common people, the lower classes, the working classes
4. folk, crowd (large group of people gathered somewhere)
5. (biology) herd, covey, swarm, colony; chiefly of insects

• Pulk
• Leute
• Mensch
• Nation

• “Volk” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Volk” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Volk” in Duden online
•   Volk on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German volk, from Old High German folk, from Proto-West Germanic *folk.

Compare German Volk, Dutch volk, English folk.

Volk n

1. people, folk

From volk (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔ́ːʋk/

Vȏlk m anim

1. a surname