wait so how did "volk" decay to "folk" en route from Saxony to England I thought the germanic decay was usually "p" to "f" (???) eg pater -> fatherhttps://twitter.com/please_b_nice/status/1280566248992980992 …
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Of course English is Germanic, but Germanic =\= German. The same is true for West Germanic. English and German are West Germanic languages, but English did not derive from German. In fact, High German underwent a further consonant shift *after* the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
The English word "folk" is indigenous to the language, not the result of language borrowing, and thus it, like the German "das Volk" understandably underwent separate changes in meaning and usage.
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