English
malefolk
Compound of male + folk.
Latin mās ‘male, masculine’
Latin masculus ‘masculine, a male’
Old French masle
Middle English male ‘a man’
English male
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 Males collectively.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / malefolk