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Etymology
The 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 "volc" meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment" and Lithuanian "pulkas" meaning "crowd", the latter is considered to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic origin). The word gradually disappeared from English after the Norman Invasion but was reintroduced in 1846 by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-85) as an 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, eg. 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 popular music (originally associated with Greenwich Village in New York City) it dates from 1958.
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
- Swedish - folk
- Frisian - folk
- Norwegian - folk
- German - Volk
- Afrikaans - folk
Folk Dancing :: Dance
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just saw a band in MTV Iggy playing live, and it was like crazy dude, it was a mix indian folk song and a slow modern pop! real ethnic cool!
adhityanasir (Adhitya Putra Nasir) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:31:36 -0000
just saw a band in MTV Iggy playing live, and it was like crazy dude, it was a mix indian folk song and a slow modern pop! real ethnic cool!
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