| 词汇 | example_english_folk-etymology |
| 释义 | Examples of folk etymologyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In short, false analogy may occur after adaptation has taken place and be carried out mainly by monolinguals as a type of folketymology. In false analogy, as in folketymology, the speaker is reaching for meaning, especially obvious and transparent meaning. This interpretation is contested and generally believed to be a folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is a folketymology for the name as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. According to folketymology, the name is derived from the effects of the tropical sun on their fair-skinned legs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Folketymology saw the name as a compound of ("pan", all) and (beast). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Folketymology advocates that the word "carcamano" is composed of two separate words. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, this may be a folketymology as there were other early temples in different centres with the same name. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. According to folketymology, village's name is derived from "supiltas" (from pour) in reference to a nearby hill fort. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, many of the meanings popularly assigned to various praenomina appear to have been no more than folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The word has been modified to crayfish by association with fish (folketymology). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This folketymology is almost certainly incorrect, but there is documentary evidence that the term did exist in the 19th century. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This is a folketymology based on "priatos", ransomed from "priasthai", to buy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Folketymology interprets the meaning as person of the people or the one with peace on one side. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Surname origins have been the subject of much folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Forms such as "mathooke", "motthook" and "mathook" were produced by folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The suggestions of a formation based on "su" (fire) and "gar" (flame), thus yielding flame of fire are considered folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A folketymology whose acronym basis reveals the late-20th-century bias, would make drag an abbreviation of dressed as girl in description of male transvestism. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A folketymology attributes it to pea patch. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The process of folketymology usually took over, whereby a false meaning was extracted from a name based on its structure or sounds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many words altered through folketymology survive beyond such resistance however, to the point where they entirely replace the original form in the language. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, each of these has a folketymology and an additional meaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This folketymology, though embraced enthusiastically by city leaders, is unverifiable. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, in the case of "okul", such an explanation seems to be no more than a folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Though this may be folketymology, it is plausible, particularly in the absence of other suggestions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He describes this as a folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. People are very good at folk etymologies that puts some pressure on getting the dictionary out before more of them become too entrenched in writing. Folketymology connects it with cape. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The name is actually folketymology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Folketymology has it that this idiom was used in the colonial period when women would sit by the fireplace making wax candles together, though there are many other theories. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Any number of rationales were subsequently applied to explain why the "s" -less plural might be acceptable, but these are generally folk etymologies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also documented controversy surrounding "okay" and the history of its folk etymologies, both of which are intertwined with the history of the word itself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Back-formation may be similar to the reanalyses of folk etymologies when it rests on an erroneous understanding of the morphology of the longer word. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The majority can be easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A number of folk etymologies have been proposed through the ages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such folk etymologies often have the effect of obscuring the true origins of a word or expression by providing a misleading and often unsubstantiated story explaining its origin. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A number of etymologies (some of them folk etymologies) have been proposed, all of which suggest that the name was derived from the languages of indigenous peoples. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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