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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.
Noun
volk pl (plural only)
- (South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 22:The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.
Etymology 2
From Middle English volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.
Noun
volk pl (plural only)
- (now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 304, column 2:Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […]
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch volk, from Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
Pronunciation
Noun
volk (plural volke or volkere, diminutive volkie)
- people
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
Pronunciation
Noun
volk n (plural volken or volkeren, diminutive volkje n)
- people, nation
- Synonym: natie
- tribe
- Synonym: stam
- folk, the common people, the lower classes, the working classes
André Hazes was een volkszanger.- André Hazes was a working-class singer.
- (informal, uncountable) people (many individuals)
- Synonyms: mensen, lieden, lui
Was er veel volk bij de bijeenkomst?- Were there a lot of people at the meeting?
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Icelandic
Noun
volk n (genitive singular volks, no plural)
- difficulty, trouble, hardship
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Middle English
Noun
volk
- (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of folk
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ
Pronunciation
Noun
vȏłk m anim
- wolf
Inflection
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Further reading
- “volk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran