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Griot

2 stages from West African/French to English.

Today it means a West African storyteller, musician, and oral historian
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Stage 1 of 2
guiriot
West African/French · medieval
"a storyteller and oral historian"
a hereditary storyteller, musician, and oral historian of West Africa
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Stage 2 of 2
griot
English · 1900s
"a West African storyteller and oral historian"
adopted directly by scholars and writers describing West African oral tradition
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