völkisch
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
German völkisch. (Morphologically, compare English folkish.)
Adjective[edit]
völkisch
- Pertaining to a German populist, identity-nationalist or ethnonationalist ideology found since the late 19th century.
- 2023 June 26, Kate Connolly, “Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- It is led by Björn Höcke, who is considered to be part of the AfD’s far right or völkisch wing, which was officially disbanded but is still widely believed to exist.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Volk + -isch (initially sometimes spelled without an umlaut, as volkisch and e.g. volckisch),[1] initially as a translation of Latin popularis[2] and then of French national/New Latin nationalis. Morphologically, compare English folkish, Old English folcisc.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
völkisch (strong nominative masculine singular völkischer, comparative völkischer, superlative am völkischsten)
- (rare, now dated, relational) pertaining to a people [since the 15th–16th c.]
- (dated) national
- Synonym: national (see also staatlich, innerstaatlich)
- (dated, especially in white supremacy and Nazism) ethnic, pertaining to a people (especially the German people) as a (putative) race (compare ethnisch)
- (by extension) populist, nationalist, ethnonationalist
Usage notes[edit]
The word often has a negative connotation now because of its propaganda usage in Nazi Germany, in which the meaning shifted from earlier “national” to “ethnic”.
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of völkisch
Comparative forms of völkisch
Superlative forms of völkisch
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Attested with an umlaut since at least 1812 in Bragur, and also used in an 1811 letter by Fichte printed in Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Leben und literarischer Briefwechsel (1862).
- ^ E.g. (as volckisch) in Lorenz Diefenbach's 1857 Glossarium Latino-Germanicum mediae et infimae aetatis.
Further reading[edit]
- “völkisch” in Duden online
- “völkisch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “völkisch” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- völkisch on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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