单词 | paronymic |
释义 | paronymicadj. = paronymous adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > derivative > derived from the same root paronymous1656 conjugate1862 cognate1868 paronymic1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Paronymic, of, or of the nature of, paronym; paronymous. 1905 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 36 p. xvii Extreme elision and replacement; e.g...‘a scanty relic of the original’, constituting a paronymic curiosity. 1986 D. A. Cruse Lexical Semantics iii. 55 These relations may be..of the so-called paronymic sort (that is to say, involving identity of root, but difference of syntactic category, as, for instance, with act: actor, race: racy). 1990 Word 41 287 In the following..spoonerisms paronymic adjustment ensures phonotactic well-formedness; invited to the palace ←→ impited to the valace, sat down and cried ←→ cat down and scried [etc.]. Compounds paronymic attraction n. Linguistics popular or folk etymology arising from similarity of appearance or sound. ΚΠ 1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iii. 172 Dauzat puts forward an alternative term [for popular etymology] ‘paronymic attraction’. 1975 Language 51 970 Effects of loan translation, loan-creation or false loans, and paronymic attraction. 1993 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 56 529 The isoglosses suggest that the /si?/ form is confined to southern-most areas..implying to me, if not an MK borrowing, then at least paronymic attraction /ci?/ > /si?/. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1890 |
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