Where does “folk” come from?

folk (Old Frisian) comes from Proto-West Germanic folk, from Proto-Germanic fulką, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- — to fill.

folk (Old Frisian): people, folk

Definitions

  1. people, folk

Ancestry of “folk”, step by step

folk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic folk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicfolkpeople, tribe
2Proto-Germanicfulkąpeople; tribe
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill

via Proto-Germanic *folk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*folk—

Words derived from “folk”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fulką →Every word from Proto-West Germanic folk →