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
- Afrikaans - volk
- Swedish - folk
- Frisian - folk
- Norwegian - folk
- Icelandic - fólk
- Faroese - fólk
- German - Volk
- Scots - fowk
In all Germanic languages, the variant of "folk" means "people" or something related to the people.
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