| 单词 | popular etymology |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspopular etymology popular etymology n. [compare later folk-etymology n. at folk n. Compounds 2 and its German model Volksetymologie] = folk-etymology n. at folk n. Compounds 2; (also) a generally accepted but unsubstantiated theory about the origins of a word or phrase; such theories collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > change of form of word to give significance popular etymology1789 parasynesis1877 folk-etymology1883 1789 R. Gough in tr. W. Camden Britannia III. 37/1 Mr. Camden seems to have hastily taken up the popular etymology of the name of Halifax. 1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. ix. 246 Such myths are created by those popular etymologies—that Volksetymologie as the Germans call it—which play so large a part in local names. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxiii. 423 So-called popular etymologies are largely adaptive and contaminative. An irregular or semantically obscure form is replaced by a new form of more normal structure and some semantic content—though the latter is often far-fetched. 1971 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. 20 8 Molly Dancers, performers of a traditional folk play... I assume the phrase to be a popular etymology for Morris Dancers. 2002 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 28 Popular etymology has it that ‘posh’ is an acronym for Port Out, Starboard Home. < as lemmas |
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