## Meanings
1. People in general; ordinary people.
2. Your relatives, especially your parents.
3. Traditional music of the ordinary people of a region or country.
4. Traditional and passed down among ordinary people rather than learned formally.

## Examples
- They are simple country folk.
- I need to call my folks back home.
- She grew up listening to Irish folk.
- There are many folk remedies for the common cold.

## Derived Forms
- adfolk
- alms-folk
- almsfolk
- anti-folk
- avant-folk
- blackfolk
- britfolk
- businessfolk
- chairfolk
- cisfolk
- clansfolk
- commonfolk

## Related Forms
- folketing
- landfolk
- norfolk
- suffolk
- volk

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *pleh₁-
- Root: folk
- Root: folc
- Root: *folk
- Root: *fulką

## Etymology
From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Swedish folk and Danish folk. Doublet of volk.

## AI Etymology
Folk comes from Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Swedish folk and Danish folk. Doublet of volk. In current use, the main senses are “People in general; ordinary people” and “Your relatives, especially your parents”.

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