folk
Old Saxon
noun
Definitions
- people, folk
Etymology
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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Suffolk English
- Fulcaredi Latin
- fullo, fullare Latin
- *pl̥h₁-gós Proto-Indo-European
- *fulką Proto-Germanic
- ceorlfolc Old English
- folc Old English
- folcgefeoht Old English
- folcland Old English
- folclar Old English
- folclic Old English
- folcræden Old English
- folcstede Old English
- landfolc Old English
- folk Middle English
- folke Middle English
- folk Old Norse
- fólk Old Norse
- *pъlkъ Proto-Slavic
- folc Old High German
- folk Old High German
- *folk gmw-pro
- folc Old Dutch
- *fulc Frankish
- пълъкъ Old East Slavic
- folk Old Frisian