Meaning of soundlore | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Information or knowledge about sounds.
   uncountable
2. The study of sounds; phonology.
   dated, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“Back in the days before grammar split⟳ off from grimoire, when magic was taught alongside poetry, and rhetoric was an application of philosophy, Priest/esses and bards passed along to their initiates the correspondences between their languages' particles of sound⟳ and the parts and patterns of the world around them. Tragically, as cultures were conquered by new religions and their old wisdom-keepers persecuted, most of this oral soundlore was lost—forcibly forgotten, or buried beneath the new priesthood's patter and Babel.”

“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, […]”

“Since this volume contains a careful analysis and complete⟳ survey of what has been hitherto written on soundlore, the author would deserve⟳ the gratitude of all learners if his work⟳ were to be looked upon […]”

“I must reiterate excuse⟳ if I have⟳ seemed heedless or impertinent in my refusal seriously to consider⟳ works on prosody which are based upon "sound-lore."”

“It may be, as he says, that these groups are not so generally studied as Greek, Teutonic and Latin, but they often (especially Lithuanian) supply⟳ forms which are of the greatest value for deciding difficult points of Aryan sound-lore.”

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