folk etymology

Etymology
English from the 1880s (Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882), a (1820s, in 1821 as Volks-Etymologie in J. A. Schmeller's Die Mundarten Bayerns grammatisch dargestellt).

Noun

 * 1) A misunderstanding of the etymology of a word based on an inexpert analysis; an etymology that incorrectly explains the origin of a word based on the inadequate judgement of a common speaker of the language instead of etymological expertise.
 * Many English folk etymologies involve backronyms.
 * 1) A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.
 * 1) A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.
 * 1) A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.
 * 1) A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Breton: etimologiezh-pobl
 * Catalan: etimologia popular
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 俗詞源學,
 * Czech: lidová etymologie
 * Danish: folkeetymologi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: popola etimologio, paretologio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: etimoloxía popular
 * Georgian: ხალხური ეტიმოლოგია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: népi etimológia
 * Indonesian:, etimologi populer
 * Italian: falsa etimologia, ,
 * Japanese: 民間語源
 * Malay: etimologi rakyat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: folkeetymologi
 * Nynorsk: folkeetymologi
 * Polish:, etymologia popularna, etymologia potoczna, pseudoetymologia
 * Portuguese: etimologia popular, pseudoetimologia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: pučka etimologija
 * Sicilian: etimuluggìa fausa, paretimuluggìa
 * Slovak: ľudová etymológia
 * Spanish: etimología popular, paretología
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: palamuhatang-bayan
 * Vietnamese: từ nguyên dân gian
 * Welsh: camdarddiad poblogaidd


 * Dutch:
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 * Russian:
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 * Icelandic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: