folk-etymological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folk-etymological
form: most folk-etymological
Senses: examples: text: In fact, it would seem that puerca is the folketymological form; […]
ref: 1905, Lee Milton Hollander, Prefixal S in Germanic, Together with the Etymologies of Fratze, Schraube, Guter Dinge, Baltimore, Md.: J. H. Furst Company, page 29:
text: Zafarambol (Zafranbolu, Safranbolu). The name has not been explained properly (Ramsay, HG 324, from Θεοδωρίαν πόλιν is impossible; Wittek, Byz. 10 [1935] 40 note 4: from (εἰ)ς Άδριανούπολιν with folketymological transformation is not convincing); […]
ref: 1971, Demetrius J[ohn] Georgacas, The Names for the Asia Minor Peninsula and a Register of Surviving Anatolian Pre-Turkish Placenames, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, page 121:
text: In medical terminology, καταμήνια katamḗnia n.pl. 'menstruation' (derived from μήν mḗn 'month') was taken up by Oribasius latinus (6th c.) as cataminia with Middle Fr. catimini; the i of the latter reflected the folketymological influence of catir 'to hide', which also accounted for the semantic shift of the French idiom en catimini 'in secret'.
ref: 1981 fall, Henry and Renée Kahane, “Byzantium’s Impact on the West: The Linguistic Evidence”, in Miroslav Marcovich, editor, Illinois Classical Studies, volume VI.2, Scholars Press, →ISSN, page 393:
text: Their rejection, to a certain extent, of the role of nurturing mothers was symbolized by their searing of their right breasts, a practice justified by folk-etymological derivations of their name from a-privative and mazos, ‘breast’ (although the ostensible purpose of the searing was to facilitate bowmanship, and Amazons are often spoken of as rearing children).
ref: 1996, Daniel Ogden, Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Oxford Classical Monographs), Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 183:
text: As Georges Van Den Abbeele has noted, the OED offers two etymologies: “the more philologically valid formation of the word from com + munis (that is, with the sense of being bound, obligated, or indebted together) and the more folk-etymological combination of com + unus (or what is together as one)” (xi).
ref: 1999, Thomas Gill Creel, How Cozening a Word is this Community, Community College Teachers and Democratic Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Inquiry, University of Minnesota, pages 17–18:
text: Those who deny the synchronic relevance of backformation would hold that backforming x from y is simply the folk-etymological assumption that x is the derivational source of y.
ref: 2001, Andrew McIntyre, German Double Particles as Preverbs: Morphology and Conceptual Semantics, Stauffenburg-Verlag, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Whatever the further ramifications of such a Greek-Iranian term for ‘sieve’ (*pelwi- : plewi-, lost in common usage in Greek), it short-circuits customary Greek root-etymologies, not just such standbys as πολύς/πλείων ‘many’ or πλέος ‘full’ or Lat. pulvis ‘dust’ / Skt. palā́va-, Lith. pelai̇̃ ‘chaff’, but also folketymological connections with πλέω ‘sail’ (implicit in Hesiod, Erga 618-626, where the setting of the Pleiades in late October marks the end of the seafaring season) and πέλεια or πελειάς ‘dove’.
ref: 2002, Jaan Puhvel, Epilecta Indoeuropaea: Opuscula Selecta Annis 1978–2001 Excusa Imprimis ad Res Anatolicas Attinentia, Innsbruck, →ISBN, pages 1243 (152) – 1244 (153):
text: The name [Kuhl] has been altered by folketymological association with the High Ger. word kuhl cool (MHG küele).
ref: 2002, Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, A.D. Mills, Adrian Room, The Oxford Names Companion, Oxford University Press, page 357:
glosses: Pertaining to folk etymology.