völkisch

== English == === Etymology === From German völkisch. (Morphologically, compare English folkish.) === Adjective === völkisch Pertaining to a German populist, identity-nationalist or ethnonationalist ideology found since the late 19th century. == German == === Etymology === Volk +‎ -isch (initially sometimes spelled without an umlaut, as volkisch and e.g. volckisch), initially as a translation of Latin popularis and then of French national/New Latin nationalis. Morphologically, compare English folkish, Old English folcisc. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfœlkɪʃ/ === Adjective === völkisch (strong nominative masculine singular völkischer, comparative völkischer, superlative am völkischsten) (rare, now dated, relational) pertaining to a people [since the 15th–16th c.] (dated) national Synonym: national (see also staatlich, innerstaatlich) (dated, especially in white supremacy and Nazism) ethnic, pertaining to a people (especially the German people) as a (putative) race (compare ethnisch) (by extension) populist, nationalist, ethnonationalist ==== Usage notes ==== The word often has a negative connotation now because of its propaganda usage in Nazi Germany, in which the meaning shifted from earlier “national” to “ethnic”. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== deutschvölkisch === References === === Further reading === “völkisch” in Duden online “völkisch”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “völkisch” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. völkisch on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de