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volk en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, plural, plural-only) The Afrikaner people.
   • The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk. 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 22:

volk en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of folk.
   alt of folk
   • No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known. 1912, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman […] (The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse), Wessex edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 21:
   • Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […] c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2: