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popular etymology
popular etymology
noun
linguistics another name for folk etymology
Word History and Origins
Origin of popular etymology1
Example Sentences
It hurts me to pour icy water upon that straw-grasping desperation that is popular etymology - ie the jolly tales that would seem so perfect when tracing a word's background.
The old interpretation “save, now!” which may be a popular etymology, is based on Ps. cxviii.
Popular etymology has connected the word with “good”; this is exemplified by the corruption of “God be with you” into “good-bye.”
It is probable then that there is a triple popular etymology in the various forms of writing the name Aššur; viz.
Beyond Tomi, where a popular etymology fixed the ‘cutting up’ of Apsyrtos, we need not follow the fortunes of Jason and Medea.
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