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Lullaby
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
a cradle-song, a song sung to children to "lull" them to sleep; the melody being styled in Fr. berceuse and in Ger. Wiegenlied. " Lull," cf. Swed. lulla, Du. lullen, &c., is of echoic or onomatopoeic origin, cf. Lat. lallare, to chatter.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lullaby'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lullaby.html. 1910.