Where does “Foulk” come from?
Foulk (Saterland Frisian) comes from Old Frisian folk, from Proto-West Germanic folk, from Proto-Germanic fulką, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- — to fill.
Foulk (Saterland Frisian): people; folk; crowd; masses
Definitions
- people; folk; crowd; masses
Ancestry of “Foulk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Frisian | folk | people, folk |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | folk | people, tribe |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | fulką | people; tribe |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |