Etymology

folkie

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Today it means: A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music. Full definition →

English folk ← Middle English folk ← Old English folc
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*fulką
  2. Proto-West Germanic*folk
  3. Old Englishfolc
  4. Middle Englishfolk
  5. Englishfolk
  6. English todayfolkie

From folk + -ie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.