Etymology

soundlore

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Today it means: Information or knowledge about sounds. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.