The story
- German · calque ofVolkstum
- English todayfolkdom
From folk + -dom, a calque of German Volkstum. In German, only sense 2 is associated with Nazism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
folkdom
Today it means: character of a people, folklore, that which defines a people’s original nature and culture (or an individual's tie to it) Full definition →
German Volkstum