volk
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.
Noun edit
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 edit
From Middle English volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.
Noun edit
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.
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch volk, from Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
volk (plural volke or volkere, diminutive volkie)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: volk
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Anagrams edit
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
volk n (genitive singular volks, no plural)
Declension edit
declension of volk
Further reading edit
- “volk” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Middle English edit
Noun edit
volk
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vȏłk m anim
Inflection edit
Masculine anim., hard o-stem, plural in -ôv- | |||
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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 edit
Further reading edit
- “volk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran