volk

Borrowed from Afrikaans volk.

volk (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 22:

     The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.

Variant forms.

volk

1. (now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:

     Edg. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:

     No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

From Dutch volk, from Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /fɔlk/

volk (plural volke, diminutive volkie)

1. people

• volkslied

• → English: volk

From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /vɔlk/

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• Hyphenation: volk
• Rhymes: -ɔlk

volk n (plural volken or volkeren, diminutive volkje n)

1. people, nation

   Synonym: natie

2. tribe

   Synonym: stam

3. folk, the common people, the lower classes, the working classes

   André Hazes was een volkszanger.

   André Hazes was a working-class singer.

4. (informal, uncountable) people (many individuals)

   Was er veel volk bij de bijeenkomst?

   Were there a lot of people at the meeting?

   Synonyms: mensen, lieden, lui

• Afrikaans: volk
• → Sranan Tongo: folku

• vlok

From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɔ́ːwk/
• Tonal orthography: vȏłk

vôlk m anim (genitive vôlka, nominative plural volkôvi)

1. wolf

• vôlkec
• volkúlja