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Folk Etymology (In English and Elsewhere) [PDF]
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991 Folk etymology is too complex a phenomenon to be dismissed as a mere source of mistakes based on ignorance. The present paper reflects the opinions of a Romanian linguist (and Anglicist) on irregular phonetic-semantic shifts produced by inter-language ...
Poruciuc, Adrian
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Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2021 The purpose of the article is to analyze the Ukrainian nominations due to the internal form of the word. The names of literary language and vernacular on the basis of ethnolinguistic phenomena – folk etymology and taboos are involved in the analysis ...
Natalia RUSNAK
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The Scientific, Folk, and Armchair Etymology of City Names (Based on the Names of the Cities in the Republic of Kazakhstan) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The etymology of toponyms has long become a favored subject of research and a matter of public curiosity. Geographical names are a mine of information about the history of an object, its location, distinctive features, significant cultural and political ...
Gulmira B. Madieva +2 more
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Amateur Etymologists: Comprehension of Etymology and Influences of Folk Etymology
, 2020 Most words have changed over the course of their journey from their origin languages to the form used in Modern English. Some words trace their origins back to common ancestors despite not having obviously similar spellings, such as the words tactile and tangible.
Mattias James Atteraas Allard
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Folk-Etymology, and its Influence on Metatron Traditions [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2013 Abstract This paper takes a new approach to the contentious area of the etymology of Metatron, applying the lessons learnt from biblical folk-etymologies which have been shown to actively influence the writing of narratives. In the first section one such possible folk-etymology is proposed, based around the sequence TTR as a divine name in Metatron ...
Michael T. Miller
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Folk Etymology of Holy Cross Toponyms
Respectus Philologicus, 2006 The article presents some toponyms of Holy Cross, which are under influence of folk etymology. The first group consists of place names, which have undergone some graphic and phonetic changes under the influence of etymology processes. Although in most cases it happened with the names of Holy Cross villages, there are also some names of bigger towns ...
Elżbieta Michov
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Orthographic Folk Etymological Nativisation: A Chinese Perspective
, 2016 Abstract of presentation for ...
Yan Chen
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Hindu Worldview Through Folk Etymology in Vāyupurāṇa [PDF]
KAMC Official Conference Proceedings, 2023 Nawin Bosakaranat
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