volkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

volk pl (plural only)

1. (South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 22:

     The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.

語源 2

From 中期英語 volk, southern form of folk; compare vixen.

名詞

volk pl (plural only)

1. (now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2:

     Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […]

   • 1912, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman […] (The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse), Wessex edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 21:

     No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

     Earlier editions have folk.