folk
adjective
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L7930 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fəʊk/ / /foʊk/ / /foʊlk/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.
- Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
- Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
- Of or related to local building materials and styles.
- Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.
“folk psychology; folk linguistics”
“Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.”
name
Etymology: * As a German surname, variant of Volk (“people, tribe”). * As an English surname, variant of Foulk, related to the noun folk, thus cognate with the above.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.
- A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
“The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.”
“We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!”
- People, persons.
“There were a lot of folk in the streets.”
“Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.”
- One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
“I need to call my folks back home.”
- Ellipsis of folk music.