Etymology

folklike

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Today it means: Resembling the style of folk music Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English folk
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*fulką
  2. Proto-West Germanic*folk
  3. Old Englishfolc
  4. Middle Englishfolk
  5. Englishfolk
  6. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  7. Proto-Germanic*līką
  8. English todayfolklike

From folk + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.