different between vast vs volk

English

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Afrikaans volk. Doublet of folk.

Noun

volk pl (plural only)

1. (South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 22:

     The lover, Tertius […] is a journalist regarded by many of his family as a traitor to the volk.

Etymology 2

Variant form.

Noun

volk pl (plural only)

1. (now obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:

     Edg. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk pass.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:

     No doubt a mampus of volk of our own rank will be down here in their carriages as soon as 'tis known.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch volk, from Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulk?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lk/

Noun

volk (plural volke, diminutive volkie)

1. people

Derived terms

• volkslied

Descendants

• ? English: volk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch volc, from Old Dutch folc, from Proto-Germanic *fulk?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lk/
• Hyphenation: volk
• Rhymes: -?lk

Noun

volk n (plural volken or volkeren, diminutive volkje n)

1. people, nation

   Synonym: natie

2. tribe

   Synonym: stam

3. folk, the common people, the lower classes, the working classes

4. (informal, uncountable) people (many individuals)

   Synonyms: mensen, lieden, lui

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: volk
• ? Sranan Tongo: folku

Anagrams

• vlok

Middle English

Noun

volk

1. (Southern, Kent) Alternative form of folk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *v?lk?, from Proto-Indo-European *w??k?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????k/

Noun

v??k m anim

1. wolf

Inflection

Derived terms

• vôlkec
• volkúlja

Further reading

• “volk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran