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Etymology
The Modern English word "folk", derives from Old English "folc" meaning "common people", "men", "tribe" or "multitude". The Old English noun itself came from Proto-Germanic "*fulka" which perhaps originally referred to a "host of warriors" (compare Old Norse "volc" meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment" and Lithuanian "pulkas" meaning "crowd", the latter is considered to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic origin). The word gradually disappeared from English after the Norman Invasion but was reintroduced in 1846 by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-85) as an Anglo-Saxonism. This word revived folk in a modern sense of "of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally," and opened up a flood of compound formations, eg. folk art (1921), folk-hero (1899), folk-medicine (1898), folk-tale (1891), folk-song (1847), folk-dance (1912). Folk-music is from 1889; in reference to the branch of modern popular music (originally associated with Greenwich Village in New York City) it dates from 1958.
Cognates in other Germanic language
Folk has a cognate in almost every other Germanic language, all deriving from Proto-Germanic "*fulka", some are listed below:
- Danish - folk
- Dutch - volk
- Swedish - folk
- Frisian - folk
- Norwegian - folk
- German - Volk
- Afrikaans - folk
@allworldkal when folk got real slack all they did was a head nod
acejaunty (ACE Jaunty) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:07:05 -0000
@allworldkal when folk got real slack all they did was a head nod
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Good evening Twitter Folk.
TheWritersDen (David Hunter ) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:04:52 -0000
Good evening Twitter Folk.
@mrtroi Get some southern food! Gladys Knight's Chicken & Waffles! I wanted to try Po Folk but the concierge didn't like it bc it's a chain.
Melissa808 (Melissa808) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:04:44 -0000
@mrtroi Get some southern food! Gladys Knight's Chicken & Waffles! I wanted to try Po Folk but the concierge didn't like it bc it's a chain.
THEATRE FOLK: Plz recommend monologues I'd be awesome at performing. Need Elizabethan/Jacobean & Contemp. I need to impress Welsh thespians.
FiendAngelical (Ashleigh) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:04:32 -0000
THEATRE FOLK: Plz recommend monologues I'd be awesome at performing. Need Elizabethan/Jacobean & Contemp. I need to impress Welsh thespians.
I'm going to a folk show lol get crunk
lancifermusic (Lane Terzieff) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:03:30 -0000
I'm going to a folk show lol get crunk
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