folk

A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.

The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.

We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish!

Ellipsis of folk music.

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.

Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.

Of or related to local building materials and styles.

Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous.

folk psychology; folk linguistics

Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.

A surname.