parentage vs folk

parentage and folk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parentage	Yes	No	No	No
folk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folk is a hyponym of parentage; that is, folk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than parentage:

Other hyponyms of parentage include family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side, breed line.

parentage (noun)	folk (noun)
the hereditary derivation of an individual	the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents	people in general (often used in the plural)
the state of being a parent	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
	people descended from a common ancestor