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発音

• IPA: /folk/, [foɫk]
• 韻: -olk

名詞

folc n

1. the people, especially the common people

   Lēodhatan frēoġaþ hīe selfe, ac hīe ġeþēowiaþ þæt folc.

   Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

2. a people, nation, or tribe
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þæt sixte wīte wæs, þæt mislīċe ḡeswel and blǣdran asprungon on heora līchaman on eallum his folce.

     The sixth plague was that various swellings and pustules sprung up on the bodies of all of his people.

3. crowd
4. the public
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans

     Hīe sæġdon þām folce þæt heora godu him wǣren ierru, tō þȳ þæt hīe him þā ġīet swīðor blēoten þonne hīe ǣr dydon.

     They told the public that their gods were angry at them, so they would sacrifice to them even more than they had before.

5. (in the singular or plural) people (multiple individuals)
6. military, army; troop
7. (in compounds) popular
8. (in compounds) public, common
9. (in compounds) country, rural

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: folk, folc, folck, follc, volc (Early Middle English), foolk, folke (Late Middle English), fok, foke (Northern), volk (Kent or Southern)
  • English: folk; folkes
  • Scots: fowk