'Griot' is a word borrowed from French 'guiriot'. The word entered the English language some time around 1820.
griot [noun] [1820]
- any of a class of musician-entertainers of western Africa whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies
- storyteller
See 'griot' on the Loan Words Map
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Etymology: French
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