English
treefolk
From tree + folk.
Proto-Indo-European *dóru
Proto-Germanic *trewą
Proto-West Germanic *treu
Old English trēo ‘tree’
Middle English trau
English tree
Proto-Germanic *fulką ‘troop, army’
Proto-West Germanic *folk ‘military, army, troop’
Old English folc ‘the people, especially the common people’
Middle English folk ‘people, folk’
English folk
Today it means
noun Intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin to (or created from) trees.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “treefolk”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / treefolk