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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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