fowk

Scots

Alternative forms

• folk

Etymology

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʌuk/

Noun

fowk (plural fowk or fowks)

1. folk, people

   Synonym: lede

Derived terms

• selkie fowk (“(collectively) selkie”, literally “seal folk”)

References

• “fowk”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.