Definition of "volk"

volk¹

noun
plural only
1. (South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
  Quotations
  The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.
  2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 22

volk²

noun
plural only
1. (now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
  Quotations
  Edg. Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: […]
  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, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2
  No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.
  1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […]