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Folk etymology is an important expression of popular psychology in which isolated received forms perceived to be opaque are reformed in such a way as to make apparent sense of them. Tabu is conveniently, if not somewhat artificially, divided into religious and secular.
Folk etymology involves a change in the form or pronunciation of a word or phrase resulting from a mistaken assumption about its composition or meaning. Also called popular etymology. G. Runblad and D.B. Kronenfeld identify two main groups of folk etymology, which they call Class I and Class II.
1 sty 2000 · Folk etymology is a process that adapts unknown words or parts of words to known ones in certain languages, thus integrating them into the lexical system and making them more transparent.
In this paper, we will explore the semantic and cultural nature of folk etymology, the mechanisms underlying it, and the insights it offers regarding the society of its speakers in order to attempt a more specific description, identification and interpretation of the process of folk etymology than what is currently available.
Folk etymology is a process that adapts unknown words or parts of words to known ones in certain lan-guages, thus integrating them into the lexical system and making them more transparent. This...
