Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
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.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants. · People, persons. · One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. · Ellipsis of folk music.
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 Saterland Frisian Foulk, West Frisian folk, Dutch volk, German Low German and German Volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Faroese and Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.
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