folker

as inracial

as intime-honored
as intraditional

Word Origin & History

Old English folc "common people, laity; men; people, nation, tribe; multitude; troop, army," from Proto-Germanic *folkom (cf. Old Frisian folk, Middle Dutch volc, German Volk "people"), from Proto-Germanic *fulka-, perhaps originally "host of warriors;" cf. Old Norse folk "people," also "army, detachment;" and Lithuanian pulkas "crowd," Old Church Slavonic pluku "division of an army," both believed to have been borrowed from Proto-Germanic. Old English folcstede could mean both "dwelling-place" and "battlefield."

Some have attempted to link the word to Greek plethos "multitude;" Latin plebs "people, mob," populus ...

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Example Sentences for folker

When they would hence, Folker, the daring, must bear the flag.

Giselher and Gere both were come; Dankwart and Folker, too, had heard about the strangers.

With all their wit they could not hinder it, when Folker and Hagen gan rage so sore.

They had with them from Burgundy land a hero of his hands, the which was named Folker.

"Let go the lion, master, he is so fierce of mood," ...

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adj ethnic