folk etymology

短语

n. 文字的通俗变化, 通俗变化语

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词形变化

folk etymologies 复数 folk etymologies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A popular explanation for the origin of a term which has been rejected as false by expert etymologists.

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    Many English folk etymologies involve backronyms.

  2. 2.

    A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.

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词汇关系

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上位词 1

etymology

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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