Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is...

cultural/linguistic community, it is a folk etymology (or popular etymology). Nevertheless, folk/popular etymology may also refer to the process by which...

Etymology (/ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/, ET-im-OL-ə-jee) is the study of the origin and evolution of words, including their constituent units of sound and of meaning...

(الدرا, "the Forest") or Navarro-Aragonese andurrial ("scrubland"). One folk etymology holds that it derives from the Biblical Endor, a name bestowed by Louis...

During the 1990s, several authors correctly identified the spurious folk etymology; however, the connection to domestic violence was still being cited...

copy/context", "spelling is correct", "spelled incorrectly", and other such folk etymology phrases. These are all incorrect and are simply backronyms from sic...

a folk etymology Reto [de], a purported deity potentially stemming from a folk etymology Stuffo, a purported deity potentially stemming from a folk etymology...

origins of "coonass" are obscure, and Cajuns have put forth several folk etymologies in an effort to explain the word's origin. Some of these hold that...

folk etymology caused animal rights groups such as PETA to lobby that the town should be renamed. Common English usage misconceptions Folk etymology Pseudo-etymology...

Pee and Kew,'" possibly the initials of "Prime Quality" (folk etymology). Another folk etymology comes from the pubs in Scotland and England. The reason...

has been buried alive to ring a bell to call for help, but this is a folk etymology. Look up dead ringer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gary Martin...

etymology is possibly related to a pre-Greek form *Erektyeu-. The connection of Ἐριχθόνιος with ἐρέχθω, "shake" is a late folk-etymology; other folk-etymologies...

hermeneutic) could determine the truth or falsity of the message.: 21–22  Folk etymology places its origin with Hermes, the mythological Greek deity who was...

Middle English (ME) male/femelle > LME male/female. Recomposition and folk etymology are related processes that assign transparent compound structure to...

either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology. The word is a portmanteau of back and acronym. A normal acronym...

by football fans of the Cleveland Browns in Hall’s home town. Many folk etymologies exist, but the written record is clear: the term appears widely in...

semantic relation between the proper name and the gloss is not clear. In folk etymology, Pēnelopē (Πηνελόπη) is usually understood to combine the Greek word...

is not cognate with English "hope": this is an example of folk etymology. This folk etymology has been strengthened by the fact that in Dutch, the word...

sometimes written as chaise lounge and pronounced /ˌtʃeɪsˈlaʊndʒ/, a folk etymology replacement of part of the original French term with the unrelated English...

is a folk song of Irish origin that was popular in the United States during the mid-19th century. The song title is the source of a folk etymology for...

or "appendage". The modern spelling is influenced by a 16th-century folk etymology that combines the Middle French word for "slope" (pente) with the English...

from the Vulgate Bible. There is also a commonly repeated incorrect folk etymology. The expression "cold shoulder" has been used in many literary works...

exact etymology of sun dog largely remains a mystery. The Oxford English Dictionary says it is "of obscure origin". In Abram Palmer's 1882 book Folk-etymology:...

"Mind your own beeswax". It is meant to soften the force of the retort. Folk etymology has it that this idiom was used in the colonial period when women would...

the "gate of god" interpretation is increasingly viewed as a Semitic folk etymology to explain an unknown original non-Semitic placename. I. J. Gelb in...

vocabulary between College Men and Commoners. Some notions acquired a folk etymology: Remedy and Half-remedy (usually shortened to rem and half-rem), meaning...

also documented controversy surrounding OK and the history of its folk etymologies, both of which are intertwined with the history of the word itself...

Ilonka and Ilike. Ilona is a common name in Finland, where, according to folk etymology, it refers to the Finnish word ilo ("joy") and ilona literally means...

in small crows"), but this translation has been suspected of being a folk etymology, and the name may be related to gharb ("west"), or ghariib ("strange...

tablet PY Tn 316, and tentatively reconstructed as *Preswa. A Greek folk etymology connected Perseus to the name of the Persian people, whom they called...