Folk

Folk The term folk in its English form comes from the Old English folc and finds its Germanic roots through the proto-Germanic fulka or the contemporary German folk. There are similar cognates in other Germanic languages as well. In its original usage, the word may have been used to refer to an army of warriors, a tribe, an ethnic group, or a small nation. Later the term came to denote a group’s shared history, language, customs, or traditions. In this sense, folk came to be associated with…