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Volk

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See also: volk and vòlk

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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Volk

  1. A surname.

German

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der Reichstag mit der Inschrift „Dem deutschen Volke — the Reichstag with the inscription „To the German people“ (sense 1)

Etymology

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

Cognate with Dutch volk, English folk, Swedish folk, Norwegian Bokmål folk, Norwegian Nynorsk folk, Icelandic fólk and Danish folk. Doublet of Pulk.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔlk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophone: folg (not for all speakers)

Noun

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Volk n (strong, genitive Volkes or Volks, plural Völker, diminutive Völkchen n or Völklein n)

  1. (collective) people, nation, folk, tribe, race (group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language)
    • 2025 May 23, Matthias Koster, X (post); screenshot and translated into English by Quds News Network, transl., X[1], 2025 June 12:
      Israel begeht im Gazastreifen alleine schon deshalb keinen Völkermord, weil die Opfer überhaupt gar kein Volk im Sinne der Völkermordkonvention sind.
      Israel cannot be committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip because the victims are not a people in the sense of the genocide convention.
  1. people, population, citizens
  2. (possibly dated) common people, the lower classes, the working classes
  3. folk, crowd (large group of people gathered somewhere)
  4. (biology) herd, covey, swarm, colony; chiefly of insects

Declension

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Volk” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Volk” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Volk” in Duden online
  • Volk on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German volk, from Old High German folk, from Proto-West Germanic *folk.

Compare German Volk, Dutch volk, English folk.

Noun

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Volk n

  1. people, folk

Slovene

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Etymology

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From volk (wolf).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Vȏlk m anim

  1. a surname