folk

• voke, volk, volke (dialectal)

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /foʊk/, /foʊlk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk

folk (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
2. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
3. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
4. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.

   folk psychology; folk linguistics

• folk etymology

folk (plural folk or folks)

1. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
   • J. R. Green

     The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

2. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
   • 1907, Race Prejudice, Jean Finot, page 251:

     We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

3. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
4. (music) Folk music.
5. (plural only) People in general.

   Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] . And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”

6. (plural only) A particular group of people.

• "folk" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 136.

From Old Norse fólk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /fɔlk/, [fʌlˀɡ̊]

folk n (singular definite folket, plural indefinite folk)

1. people
2. men
3. crew

• (nation): folkeslag, nation

• hoffolk

• “folk” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “folk” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From English folk (“folk music”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔwɡ̊]

folk c (singular definite folken, not used in plural form)

1. folk music (contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music)

• folk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /ˈfolk(i)/, [ˈfo̞lk(i)]

folk

1. (music) folk, folk music

• folklaulaja
• folkmusiikki

From Old Norse fólk, folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

folk n (definite singular folket, indefinite plural folk, definite plural folka or folkene)

1. a people
2. people in general
3. folk

• avfolke
• befolke

• “folk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fólk, folk.

• IPA^(key): /fɔlk/

folk n (definite singular folket, indefinite plural folk, definite plural folka)

1. people

   Folk er rare.

   People are strange.

   Nordmennene er eit rart folk.

   The Norwegians are a strange people.

• “folk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fulk,

From Proto-Germanic *fulką.

folk n

1. people, folk

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: folk

• Saterland Frisian: Foulk
• West Frisian: folk

• folc

From Proto-Germanic *fulką.

folk n

1. people, folk

• Middle Low German: volk
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:

      Hamburgisch: Volk

    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Folk

      Sauerländisch: Volk

      Westmünsterländisch: Volk

  • Plautdietsch: Volkj

Borrowed from English folk.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfow.ki/

folk m (uncountable)

1. (music) folk music (contemporary music in traditional style)

• música folk

folk (plural folks)

1. Alternative spelling of fowk

English

folk m (uncountable)

1. folk (music)

From Old Norse fólk, folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

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folk n

1. (uncountable) people in general, humans
2. a people, a nation; in compounds referring to local or national traditions (folklore), national institutions (folkhem) or international relations (folkrätt)

From Old Frisian folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /folk/

folk n (plural folken, diminutive folkje)

1. people, folk

• “folk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

folk

1. call at the door if anyone's home