# volk
## English
### 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.Earlier editions have folk.

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔlk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

volk (plural volke or volkere, diminutive volkie)
* people

#### Derived terms

* volkslied

#### Descendants

* → English: volk

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔlk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: volk
* Rhymes: -ɔlk

### 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)
    Synonyms: mensen, lieden, lui
    Was er veel volk bij de bijeenkomst?Were there a lot of people at the meeting?

#### Derived terms

* bevolken
* bijenvolk
* omvolking
* ontvolking
* volkenrecht
* volkrijk
* volks
* volksbuurt
* volksdans
* volksfeest
* volksgeest
* volksgericht
* volkslied
* volksmenner
* volksmond
* volkspartij
* volksverhaal
* volkszanger

#### Descendants

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

### Anagrams

* vlok

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse valk, from Proto-Germanic *walką.

### Noun

volk n (genitive singular volks, no plural)
* difficulty, trouble, hardship

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Noun

volk
* (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of folk

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋɔ́ːʋk/

### Noun

vȏłk m anim
* wolf

#### 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