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8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture
originFrom folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung (“popular tradition”). Compare also Old English folclar (“popular instruction; homily”) and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0