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folktale

noun
/ˈfoʊkteɪl/

Etymology

From folk + tale.

  1. derived from *del-✻ — “to reckon, count”
  2. inherited from *talō✻ — “calculation, number”
  3. inherited from *talu✻
  4. inherited from talu — “tale, series, calculation”
  5. inherited from tale
  6. compounded as folktale — “folk + tale”

Definitions

  1. A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for folktale. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA