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Folk etymology

Folk etymology is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage. The form or the meaning of an archaic, foreign, or otherwise unfamiliar word is reinterpreted as resembling more familiar words or morphemes.

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Folk etymology

Nodes80
Edges79
Triples49
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.025
Components1

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related to Other languages · 21
Folk etymology → By, Cratylus, Dyēus, Día, English, For, Greek, In Plato’s, It, Latin, Likewise, Medieval Latin, Middle Ages, Old High German, PIE, Several, Similarly, The, This, Zeus
related to Productive force · 10
Folk etymology → Believing, English, Examples, French, Likewise, Middle English, Speculation, The, This, Until
related to Loanwords · 9
Folk etymology → Ancient Greek, Anglo-Norman, For, Late Latin, Middle English, Old French, Other Old French, The, There
is a · 3
Folk etymology → change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage, loan translation from German Volksetymologie, productive process in historical linguistics
related to Examples in English · 2
Folk etymology → In, Typically

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word etymology folk english words meaning form old change spelling phrase popular middle french name borrowed one term false related

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Folk etymologyis achange in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage0.90text
Folk etymologyis aloan translation from German Volksetymologie0.90text
Folk etymologyis aproductive process in historical linguistics0.90text
stuck fastinstance ofbut by itself mainly in frozen expressions0.80text
hold fastinstance ofbut by itself mainly in frozen expressions0.80text
and play fastinstance ofbut by itself mainly in frozen expressions0.80text
looseinstance ofbut by itself mainly in frozen expressions0.80text
Folk etymologyrelated to Examples in EnglishIn0.60section
Folk etymologyrelated to Examples in EnglishTypically0.60section
Folk etymologyrelated to LoanwordsThere0.60section
Folk etymologyrelated to LoanwordsThe0.60section
Folk etymologyrelated to LoanwordsFor0.60section

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