"traditional beliefs and customs of the common people," 1846, coined by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-1885) as an Anglo-Saxonism (replacing popular antiquities) in imitation of German compounds in Volk- and first published in the "Athenaeum" of Aug. 22, 1846; see folk + lore. Old English folclar meant "homily."
This word revived folk in a modern sense of "of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally," and opened up a flood of compound formations: Folk art (1892), folk-hero (1874), folk-medicine (1877), folk-tale (1850; Old English folctalu meant "genealogy"), folk-song (1847, "a song of the people," translating German Volkslied), folk-singer (1876), folk-dance (1877).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. According to local folklore it is an evil place.
據(jù)當(dāng)?shù)孛耖g傳說(shuō)，那是個(gè)不祥的地方。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The story rapidly became part of family folklore.
這個(gè)故事很快就成為家族傳說(shuō)的一部分。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. Local folklore has it that prehistoric men drove cattle over these cliffs.