soundlore

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soundlore

/ˈsaʊnd.lɔː/ UK
/ˈsaʊnd.lɔɹ/ US

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From sound + lore. Perhaps calqued from German Lautlehre (“phonology”, literally “sound-lore”).

noun sound-lore

uncountable Information or knowledge about sounds. When a young brave in training could distinguish between these sounds he was well on the road to know what made them, but there was still an enormous amount of sound-lore to be learned.
dated, uncountable The study of sounds; phonology. The present opportunity has been used to enlarge and improve several departments of the Grammar, especially those of Soundlore and Derivation, and to bring out somewhat more prominently than before the leading facts of Comparative Philology, […]

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@misc{soundlore_2026,
  title = {soundlore},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soundlore},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}