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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEOPLE , a collective See also:

term for persons in See also:general, especially as forming the See also:body of persons in a community or nation, the " folk " (the O.E. and Teut. word, cf. Ger. See also:Volk). The earlier forms of the word were peple, See also:poe See also:pie, puple, &c.; the See also:present See also:form is found as See also:early as the 15th See also:century, but was not established till the beginning of the 16th. Old See also:French, from which it was adapted, had many of these forms as well as the mod. Fr. peuple. The See also:Lat. populus is generally taken to be a reduplication from the See also:root ple,—fill, seen in plenus, full; See also:plebs, the See also:commons; Gr. rrMOor, multitude.

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