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Some Folk Etymologies for Place Names
The Journal of American Folklore, 1944 J. W. Ashton
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Folk Etymology in South Carolina Place Names
American Speech, 1966 Claude Henry Neuffer
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Vetus Testamentum, 1979
En rapprochant les versets 7 et 9 de I Samuel 9, on a une etymologie populaire du terme de Nabi'qui designe en hebreu le prophete. Le narrateur biblique le rattache a la 1personne du pluriel de l'imparfait hiphil de bw'et suggere que le prophete est appele Nabi'parce que nous lui apportons (Nabi') des presents pour obtenir ses oracles.
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En rapprochant les versets 7 et 9 de I Samuel 9, on a une etymologie populaire du terme de Nabi'qui designe en hebreu le prophete. Le narrateur biblique le rattache a la 1personne du pluriel de l'imparfait hiphil de bw'et suggere que le prophete est appele Nabi'parce que nous lui apportons (Nabi') des presents pour obtenir ses oracles.
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Amateur Etymologists: Comprehension of Etymology and Influences of Folk Etymology
2020Most 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.
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Exotic to demotic: folk etymology in the context of empire
Critical Quarterly, 2005'Folk etymology' is the linguistic move whereby speakers modify spelling or pronunciation so as to neutralise a strangeness of a word from another language or from a forgotten earlier stage of the same language. Obeying no known law, insisting always on the bonding of the phonic and the semantic, folk etymology challenges the nineteenth-century ...
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The inevitability of folk etymology: a case of collective reality and invisible hands
Journal of Pragmatics, 2003Folk etymologies often begin as highly individual constructions, but yet seem to conform to some kind of collective reality, which enables language users to accommodate folk etymologised words with apparent ease. In this paper, we will explore the semantic and cultural nature of folk etymology, the mechanisms underlying it, and the insights it offers ...
Rundblad, Gabriella, Kronenfeld, David B
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