24-07-03 22:59, alex wrote:
> Germaninc "volk" is still not cleared and I assume you have the answer
> for this word. Do you?
<Volk> is a German word rather than Germani(n?)c. It has nothing to do
with *walxaz and corresponds to English <folk> (OE/ON/OHG folc). Its
Proto-Germanic ancestor was *fulka, as if < pre-Gmc. *pl.kom . There
are similar Balto-Slavic words -- Slavic *pUlkU 'troop, regiment', Lith.
pulkas -- but they may be early loans from Germanic rather than real
cognates. The word may be derived from the PIE root *pelh1- 'fill'
(found also in words meaning 'much, many', etc.).
Piotr