Borrowed fromAfrikaansvolk.Doublet offolk.

volk pl (plural only)

1. (South Africa) TheAfrikaner people.
   • 2012,Nadine Gordimer,No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published2013, page22:

     The lover, Tertius[…] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to thevolk.

FromMiddle Englishvolk, southern form offolk; comparevixen.

volk pl (plural only)

1. (nowobsolete ordialectal)Alternative form offolk
   • c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene vi],page304, column 2:

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

   • 1912,Thomas Hardy, chapter III, inTess 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),page21:

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

     Earlier editions havefolk.

FromDutchvolk, fromMiddle Dutchvolc, fromOld Dutchfolc, fromProto-Germanic*fulką.

• IPA^(key):/fɔlk/

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volk (pluralvolkeorvolkere,diminutivevolkie)

1. people

• volkslied

• → English:volk

FromMiddle Dutchvolc, fromOld Dutchfolc, fromProto-West Germanic*folk, fromProto-Germanic*fulką.

• IPA^(key):/vɔlk/

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• Hyphenation:volk
• Rhymes:-ɔlk

volk n (pluralvolkenorvolkeren,diminutivevolkje n)

1. people,nation

   Synonym:natie

2. tribe

   Synonym:stam

3. (uncountable)folk, thecommonpeople, thelowerclasses, theworking 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 veelvolk bij de bijeenkomst?

   Were there a lot ofpeople at the meeting?

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

• vlok

FromOld Norsevalk, fromProto-Germanic*walką.

volk n (genitive singularvolks,no plural)

1. difficulty,trouble,hardship

• “volk” in theDictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) andISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

volk

1. (Southern,Kent)Alternative form offolk

FromProto-Slavic*vьlkъ

• IPA^(key):/ʋɔ́ːʋk/

vȏłk m anim

1. wolf

• vôlkec
• volkúlja

• “volk”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “volk”, inTermania, Amebis
• See also thegeneral references