folk etymology

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A popular explanation for the origin of a term which has been rejected as false by expert etymologists. countable,uncountable
    — Many English folk etymologies involve backronyms.
  2. A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail. countable,uncountable
    — SURCEASE owes its form and meaning to a remarkable folk-etymology, as has been pointed out by Prof. Skeat:—"It is obvious, from the usual spelling, that this word is popularly supposed to be allied with cease, with which it has no etymological connexion."

词形变化

folk etymologies plural

词源

English from the 1880s (Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882), a calque of German Volksetymologie (1820s, in 1821 as Volks-Etymologie in J. A. Schmeller's Die Mundarten Bayerns grammatisch dargestellt).
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