volk

See also: Volk

English

volk (uncountable)

(South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 22:
  The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.

Variant forms.

volk

(now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
- 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
  Edg. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
  No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

volk (plural volke)

From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką. Compare German Volk, West Frisian folk, English folk, Danish folk.

volk n (plural volken or volkeren, diminutive volkje n)

people, nation, tribe
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)

Was er veel volk bij de bijeenkomst?
Were there a lot of people at the meeting?

Terms derived from volk

From Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

vôlk m anim (genitive vôlka, nominative plural volkôvi)

Declension of vôlk (masculine anim., hard o-stem, plural in -ôv-)

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