folc

Old English

noun
Definitions
  • a people, nation, tribe
  • crowd
  • (in the singular or plural) people (multiple individuals)
  • military, army; troop
  • (in compounds) popular
  • (in compounds) public, common, general
  • (in compounds) country, rural

Etymology

Inherited from *folk inherited from Proto-Germanic *fulką (people, multitude, host of warriors, people collectively, folk, crowd, nation, tribe, race, army).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*fulką

Gloss

people, multitude, host of warriors, people collectively, folk, crowd, nation, tribe, race, army

Concept
Semantic Field

Kinship

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

民

Emoji

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