folk

English

/fəʊk/, /foʊk/

adj
Definitions
  • Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  • Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  • (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  • Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English folk inherited from Old English folc (troop, common people, crowd, army, nation, people, band, multitude) inherited from Proto-Germanic *fulką (people, multitude, host of warriors, people collectively, folk, crowd, nation, tribe, race, army) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pl̥h₁-gós

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