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==Origin==
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] folc; akin to Old High German folc people
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] folc; akin to Old High German folc people
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]
The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD 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 folk meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment", German Gefolge ("host"), and Lithuanian pulkas [[meaning]] "crowd". The latter is [[considered]] to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic [[origin]], cf. Belarusian полк - połk [[meaning]] regiment and German Pulk for a group of [[persons]] standing [[together]].
The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD 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 folk meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment", German Gefolge ("host"), and Lithuanian pulkas [[meaning]] "crowd". The latter is [[considered]] to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic [[origin]], cf. Belarusian полк - połk [[meaning]] regiment and German Pulk for a group of [[persons]] standing [[together]].
The [[word]] became colloquialized (usually in the plural folks) in [[English]] in the sense "people", and was [[considered]] inelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered [[academic]] [[English]] through the [[invention]] of the word [[folklore]] in 1846 by the antiquarian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thoms William J. Thoms] (1803–85) as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_language 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, e.g. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music popular music] (associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village Greenwich Village] in New York City) here it dates from 1958. It is also regional music.
The [[word]] became colloquialized (usually in the plural folks) in [[English]] in the sense "people", and was [[considered]] inelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered [[academic]] [[English]] through the [[invention]] of the word [[folklore]] in 1846 by the antiquarian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thoms William J. Thoms] (1803–85) as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_language 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, e.g. 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music popular music] (associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village Greenwich Village] in New York City) here it dates from 1958. It is also regional music.
