paremiography or paroemiography
📖 Definitions
noun
1. The writing or collecting of proverbs.
2. A collection of proverbs.
💬 Usage Examples
“But such are the pitfalls of lexicography in general and paremiography in particular. It takes time for ‘new’ words and phrases to be picked up, and some expressions never make it into dictionaries and collections.” Wolfgang Mieder; “Good fences make good neighbours”: History and Significance of an Ambiguous Proverb; Folklore (Abingdon, UK); Aug 2003.