lore

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• Received-Pronunciation: lô
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• Received-Pronunciation: /lɔː/
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• General-American: lôr
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• General-American: /loɹ/
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• lōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /lo(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• /loə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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• homophone: law (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
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• homophone: lure (some accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: L AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leys- Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e Proto-Germanic *lizaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *laizijaną Proto-Germanic *laizō Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu Old English lār Middle English lore English lore From Middle English lore, from Old English lār, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from *laizijaną (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre, Swedish lära and Danish lære. See also learn.

From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: saviesa — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Dutch: overlevering — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Esperanto: folkloro — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Finnish: perimätieto — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• French: traditions — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• French: savoir-faire — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Wissen — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Überlieferung — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Kunde — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Lehre — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Weisheit — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Regeln — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• German: Regel — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Icelandic: fróðleikur — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Icelandic: þjóðlegur fróðleikur — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Macedonian: знаење (znaenje) — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Māori: tikanga — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Portuguese: saber — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Portuguese: sabedoria — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Portuguese: tradição — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Russian: зна́ние (znánije) — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Scottish Gaelic: seanchas — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Serbo-Croatian: znanje — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Slovene: izročilo — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: sabiduría — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: tradición — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: erudición — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: acervo — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: etnografía — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Spanish: mitología — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Swedish: lära — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Welsh: llên — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Welsh: llennau — all the facts and traditions about a particular subject
• Catalan: univers — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Chinese Mandarin: 設定 /设定 (shèdìng) — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Finnish: taustatarina — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• French: univers — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• French: lore — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• German: Saga — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• German: Hintergrund — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Russian: лор (lor) — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Russian: преда́ние (predánije) — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: leyenda — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: acervo — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: mitología — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: etnografía — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: logía — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: raigambre — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Spanish: demosofía — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Swedish: saga — the backstory created around a fictional universe
• Ukrainian: лор (lor) — the backstory created around a fictional universe