Folki
Folki is a short form of a Norse masculine name commencing with folk (folk).
Variants:
Fulchi [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 115].
Fulcoius [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 115]
Fulcho [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 320].
Fulco [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 320].
Fulo [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 320].
Fólki [Erik Lind 1905-1915 Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden, column 278].
Falke [Dorothy Whitelock 1945 Saga-Book 12: 147].
Folco [Jan de Vries 1962 Altnordisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2nd edition, page 137].
Folki [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 84].
Notes:
Fulcoius is a Latinization.
Stem:
FÓLK, prop. folk = folk, people [Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1874 An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, page 167].
Suffix:
“Short forms of names in Class A formed by the addition of the suffixes -i (masc.) or -a (fem.) to one or other of the elements” [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page xxxi].
Explanation:
Folki = A short form of names in Folk- [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 84].
Usage:
A man called Fulchi (Folki) held land in Hampshire during the reign of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): “Fulchi tenuit, de rege Edwardo, et potuit ire quo voluit” [Henry Moody 1862 Hampshire in 1086, page 22]: “Folki held it of King Edward, and he could go where he would” [Ann Williams & Geoffrey Martin 2002 Domesday Book 1: 121].
