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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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Folk Etymology and Contamination in the Romance Languages [PDF]
, 2020 ‘Folk etymology’ and ‘contamination’ each involve associative formal influences between words which have no ‘etymological’ (i.e., historical), connexion. From a morphological perspective, in folk etymology a word acquires at least some elements of the structure of some other, historically unrelated, word.
Martin Maiden
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Folk - etymology: how to make words with their false counterparts
Radovi. Razdio filoloških znanosti, 2018 Osnovna je namjera ovoga rada upozoriti na postojanje i nastanak riječi koje su poznate pod nazivom pučka etimologija. Ova se pojava promatra u okvirima tvorbe riječi i kreativnih mogućnosti jednog jezika, a manje kao izdvojena problematika koja se pripisuje jeziku tradicije i krivom tumačenju izvornika.
Danica Škara
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F. ZIMMERMANN, Folk etymology of Biblical names
, 1966 Names play an important and meaningful role in the social and reIigious consciousness of the Hebrew people. For the explanation of many names, the Hebrew Bible provides a folk etymology. If we examine the names in the Hebrew Bible with the information that we have today, we shall see that quite a number of names have significations intimately tied up ...
Frank Zimmermann
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Jaina Monks Seen in Folk-etymology
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 1986 Moriichi YAMAZAKI
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Folk Etymology: Escape from the Unknown, the Obscure and Nothing More?
Studia Anglica Resoviensia, 2019 Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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