Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/folk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *fulką.

*folk n

1. military, army, troop
2. people, tribe

• *fulkijan

• Old English: folc
  • Middle English: folk, folke, foolk, fok, folck, folc, follc, volk
    • English: folk
    • Scots: fowk
• Old Frisian: folk
  • North Frisian:
    • Föhr-Amrum: folk
  • Saterland Frisian: Foulk
  • West Frisian: folk
• Old Saxon: folk, folc
  • Middle Low German: volk
    • Low German:
      • German Low German:

        Hamburgisch: Volk

        Westphalian:

        Lippisch: Volk

        Ravensbergisch: Folk

        Sauerländisch: Volk

        Westmünsterländisch: Volk

    • Plautdietsch: Volkj
• Old Dutch: folc
  • Middle Dutch: volc
    • Dutch: volk
      • Afrikaans: volk
      • Negerhollands: volk, folok, folk, fulok, fuluk, folluk
      • → Sranan Tongo: folku
    • Limburgish: vouk
• Old High German: folk, folc
  • Middle High German: volk
    • Cimbrian: vòlk, bòlk (Mezzaselva)
    • German: Volk
    • Hunsrik: Follek
    • Luxembourgish: Vollek
    • Vilamovian: fulk
    • Yiddish: פֿאָלק (folk)
• → Early Medieval Latin: fulcus
  • Catalan: folc
  • Italian: folla
  • Old French: foulc (see there for further descendants)
  • Galician: foula