volk
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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[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.
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)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: volk
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
- (uncountable) 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)
Derived terms
- bevolken
- bijenvolk
- omvolking
- ontvolking
- volkenrecht
- volkrijk
- volks
- volksbuurt
- volksdans
- volksfeest
- volksgeest
- volksgericht
- volkslied
- volksmenner
- volksmond
- volkspartij
- volksverhaal
- volkszanger
Descendants
Anagrams
Etymology
From Old Norse valk, from Proto-Germanic *walką.
Noun
volk n (genitive singular volks, no plural)
Declension
Declension of volk (sg-only neuter)
Further reading
- “volk” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Noun
volk
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ
Pronunciation
Noun
vȏłk m anim
Inflection
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| Masculine anim., hard o-stem, plural in -ôv- | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | vôlk | ||
| gen. sing. | vôlka | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
vôlk | volkôva | volkôvi |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
vôlka | volkôv | volkôv |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
vôlku | volkôvoma | volkôvom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
vôlka | volkôva | volkôve |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
vôlku | volkôvih | volkôvih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
vôlkom | volkôvoma | volkôvi |
Derived terms
- vôlkec
- volkúlja
Further reading
- “volk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “volk”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
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