volk
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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- | |||
---|---|---|---|
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
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