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==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
*[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 [[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.
==Definitions==
*1archaic : a [[group]] of kindred [[tribes]] forming a [[nation]] : people
*2: the great [[proportion]] of the members of a people that [[determines]] the [[group]] [[character]] and that tends to preserve its characteristic [[form]] of [[civilization]] and its [[customs]], arts and crafts, [[legends]], [[traditions]], and [[superstitions]] from [[generation]] to generation
*3: plural : a certain kind, class, or group of people <old folks> <just plain folk> <country folk> <media folk>
*4: plural : people generally
*5: folks plural : the [[persons]] of one's own [[family]]; especially : [[parents]]
*6: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folk music Folk Music]
==Description==
In German the [[word]] ''Volk'' can have several [[different]] [[meanings]], such as folk ([[simple]] people), people in the [[ethnic]] sense, and [[nation]].
German ''Volk'' is commonly used as the first, determining part (head) of compound nouns such as Volksentscheid (plebiscite, [[[[literally]]]] "[[decision]] of/by the people") or Völkerbund (League of Nations), or the car manufacturer Volkswagen (literally, "people's car").
A number of völkisch [[movements]] existed prior to [[World War I]]. Combining interest in [[folklore]], [[ecology]], [[occultism]] and [[romanticism]] with ethnic [[nationalism]], their [[ideologies]] were a strong influence on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi Nazi] party, which itself was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]'s membership of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party), even though Hitler in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf Mein Kampf] himself denounced usage of the [[word]] völkisch as he considered it too vague as to carry any recognizable [[meaning]] due to former over-use. Today, the term völkisch is largely restricted to historical [[contexts]] describing the closing 19th century and early 20th century up to Hitler's seize of power in 1933, especially during the years of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic Weimar Republic].
Because Volk is the generic German [[word]] for "people" in the ethnic sense today as well as for "people entitled to [[vote]]" (Wahlvolk), its use does not necessarily denote any particular [[political]] views in post-1945 Germany. However, because of its [[past]], the [[word]] is rarely used with Bevölkerung ("[[population]]") serving as a substitute. "Wir sind das Volk!" ("We are the people!") was a [[chant]] used by the Monday [[demonstrators]] during the peaceful demonstrations of 1989/1990 to end the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany DDR] and bring down the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall Berlin Wall].
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Political Science]]
==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
*[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 [[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.
==Definitions==
*1archaic : a [[group]] of kindred [[tribes]] forming a [[nation]] : people
*2: the great [[proportion]] of the members of a people that [[determines]] the [[group]] [[character]] and that tends to preserve its characteristic [[form]] of [[civilization]] and its [[customs]], arts and crafts, [[legends]], [[traditions]], and [[superstitions]] from [[generation]] to generation
*3: plural : a certain kind, class, or group of people <old folks> <just plain folk> <country folk> <media folk>
*4: plural : people generally
*5: folks plural : the [[persons]] of one's own [[family]]; especially : [[parents]]
*6: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folk music Folk Music]
==Description==
In German the [[word]] ''Volk'' can have several [[different]] [[meanings]], such as folk ([[simple]] people), people in the [[ethnic]] sense, and [[nation]].
German ''Volk'' is commonly used as the first, determining part (head) of compound nouns such as Volksentscheid (plebiscite, [[[[literally]]]] "[[decision]] of/by the people") or Völkerbund (League of Nations), or the car manufacturer Volkswagen (literally, "people's car").
A number of völkisch [[movements]] existed prior to [[World War I]]. Combining interest in [[folklore]], [[ecology]], [[occultism]] and [[romanticism]] with ethnic [[nationalism]], their [[ideologies]] were a strong influence on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi Nazi] party, which itself was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]'s membership of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party), even though Hitler in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf Mein Kampf] himself denounced usage of the [[word]] völkisch as he considered it too vague as to carry any recognizable [[meaning]] due to former over-use. Today, the term völkisch is largely restricted to historical [[contexts]] describing the closing 19th century and early 20th century up to Hitler's seize of power in 1933, especially during the years of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic Weimar Republic].
Because Volk is the generic German [[word]] for "people" in the ethnic sense today as well as for "people entitled to [[vote]]" (Wahlvolk), its use does not necessarily denote any particular [[political]] views in post-1945 Germany. However, because of its [[past]], the [[word]] is rarely used with Bevölkerung ("[[population]]") serving as a substitute. "Wir sind das Volk!" ("We are the people!") was a [[chant]] used by the Monday [[demonstrators]] during the peaceful demonstrations of 1989/1990 to end the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany DDR] and bring down the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall Berlin Wall].
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Political Science]]
