volk

Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.

volk pl (plural only)

1. (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.

From Middle English volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.

volk pl (plural only)

1. (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2:

     Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […]

   • 1912, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman […] (The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse), Wessex edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 21:

     No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

     Earlier editions have folk.

From Dutch volk, from Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /fɔlk/

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volk (plural volke or volkere, diminutive volkie)

1. people

• volkslied

• → English: volk

From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

• IPA^(key): /vɔlk/

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• Hyphenation: volk
• Rhymes: -ɔlk

volk n (plural volken or volkeren, diminutive volkje n)

1. people, nation

   Synonym: natie

2. tribe

   Synonym: stam

3. folk, the common people, the lower classes, the working classes

   André Hazes was een volkszanger.

   André Hazes was a working-class singer.

4. (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?

• Afrikaans: volk
• Negerhollands: volk, folok, folk, fulok, fuluk, folluk
• → Sranan Tongo: folku

• vlok

volk n (genitive singular volks, no plural)

1. difficulty, trouble, hardship

• “volk” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

volk

1. (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of folk

From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔ́ːʋk/

vȏłk m anim

1. wolf

• vôlkec
• volkúlja

• “volk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran