volge

From Latin vulgus.

• IPA^(key): /voʊlɡ/

volge pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) The common people; the crowd, the mob.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Prince Edwards Performance in Palestine: He is Dangerously Wounded; yet Recovereth, and Returneth Home Safe”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 219:

     [Y]ea, he would profer to fight with any mean perſon, if cried up by the volge for a tall man: this daring being a generall fault in great ſpirits, and a great fault in a Generall, who ſtaketh a pearl againſt a piece of glaſſe.

• voulge

• “volge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Vogel, glove, vogle

volge

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of volgen

• golve, vloge, vogel

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɔldʒe
• Hyphenation: vòl‧ge

volge

1. third-person singular present indicative of volgere

volge

1. vocative singular of volgus

• "volge", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Old High German folga, from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn (“to follow”).

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈvɔlɡə/, /ˈfɔlɡə/

volge f

1. entourage, retinue (group of attendants)
   1. band, armed retinue, party, company (group of followers under arms)
2. assent, agreement
   1. obedience

• German: Folge
• → Old Polish: folga
  • Polish: folga

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “volge”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• “volge” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.