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"ref": "1986, Robert Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 237:",
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"ref": "1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions, London: George Bell, →OCLC, page 654:",
"text": "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.\"",
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"ref": "2006, Shaligram Shukla, Jeff Connor-Linton, “Language change”, in Ralph Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 296:",
"text": "Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.' [...] Subsequently, on the analogy of this folk etymology, new forms such as cheeseburger, chiliburger, and plain burger have been created.",
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"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
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"etymology_text": "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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"word": "folk etymologist"
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"word": "folk-etymologize"
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"word": "folk-etymological"
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"word": "folk-etymologically"
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{
"word": "folk linguistics"
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{
"word": "goropism"
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{
"word": "Hobson-Jobson"
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{
"word": "eggcorn"
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{
"word": "mondegreen"
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{
"word": "and phono-semantic matching"
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"word": "and rebracketing"
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"word": "and malapropism"
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"text": "Many English folk etymologies involve backronyms.",
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"ref": "1926, James A.H. Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume X, part I, page 248, column 1:",
"text": "It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.",
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"ref": "1986, Robert Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 237:",
"text": "He even sharked up a false or \"folk\" etymology in which saunter is made to derive from sainte terre, making the saunterer a crusader.",
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"word": "fake etymology"
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"word": "false etymology"
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"word": "pseudoetymology"
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"ref": "1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions, London: George Bell, →OCLC, page 654:",
"text": "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.\"",
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"ref": "2006, Shaligram Shukla, Jeff Connor-Linton, “Language change”, in Ralph Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, editors, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 296:",
"text": "Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.' [...] Subsequently, on the analogy of this folk etymology, new forms such as cheeseburger, chiliburger, and plain burger have been created.",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "žoġovrdakan stugabanutʻyun",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "ժողովրդական ստուգաբանություն"
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"sense": "false etymology",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "false etymology",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "俗詞源學"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "súcíyuánxué",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "俗词源学"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "望文生義"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wàngwénshēngyì",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "望文生义"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lidová etymologie"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "folkeetymologi"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "false etymology",
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"feminine"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "popola etimologio"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "paretologio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "kansanetymologia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "étymologie populaire"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimoloxía popular"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "xalxuri eṭimologia",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "ხალხური ეტიმოლოგია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paretymología",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παρετυμολογία"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "népi etimológia"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "etimologi rakyat"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "etimologi populer"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paretimologia"
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{
"alt": "みんかんごげん",
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"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "民間語源"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "etimologi rakyat"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "false etymology",
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"masculine"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "false etymology",
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"masculine"
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"word": "folkeetymologi"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etymologia ludowa"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pseudoetymologia"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimologia popular"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pseudoetimologia"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimologie populară"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naródnaja etimológija",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "наро́дная этимоло́гия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pučka etimologija"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimuluggìa fausa"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "paretimuluggìa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ľudová etymológia"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimología popular"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "paretología"
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{
"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "etimología sacha"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "etimología folklórica"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "folketymologi"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "palamuhatang-bayan"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "false etymology",
"word": "từ nguyên dân gian"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "false etymology",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "camdarddiad poblogaidd"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a modification of a word or its spelling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "volksetymologie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a modification of a word or its spelling",
"word": "kansanetymologia"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a modification of a word or its spelling",
"word": "népetimológia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a modification of a word or its spelling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "reanálisis morfémico"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a modification of a word or its spelling",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "folketymologi"
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"folk etymology"
],
"word": "folk etymology"
}
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