Brewer's: Folk

Latin, vulg' (the common people); German, volk; Dutch, volch; Saxon, folc; Danish, folk. Folk and vulgar are variants of the same word.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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