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Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

Aarne-Thompson-Uther index proper noun: a catalogue of traditional tales based around motifs used in folklore studies.

Proper noun

the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

  1. A catalogue of traditional tales based around motifs used in folklore studies.

Origin of Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

After Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne, who originally devised the index, and its elaborators American folklorist Stith Thompson and German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther.

Questions about Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

What does Aarne-Thompson-Uther index mean?
Aarne-Thompson-Uther index means a catalogue of traditional tales based around motifs used in folklore studies.
What part of speech is Aarne-Thompson-Uther index?
Aarne-Thompson-Uther index is a proper noun.

Words near Aarne-Thompson-Uther index in the dictionary

  1. aarF
  2. Aargau
  3. aargh
  4. Aarhus
  5. Aari
  6. Aarne-Thompson-Uther index
  7. AARO
  8. Aaron
  9. Aaron's beard
  10. Aaron's beard cacti
  11. Aaron's beard cactus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aarne-Thompson-Uther index (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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