Etymology

folky

F4O1L1K5Y4

Today it means: Having the character of folk music Full definition →

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

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

From folk + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.