Voorbeelden van folk etymology

• Any number of rationales were subsequently applied to explain why the "s" -less plural might be acceptable, but these are generally folk etymologies.

• 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.

• 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.

• The majority can be easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies.

• A number of folk etymologies have been proposed through the ages.

• 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.

• 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.

• In short, false analogy may occur after adaptation has taken place and be carried out mainly by monolinguals as a type of folk etymology.

• In false analogy, as in folk etymology, the speaker is reaching for meaning, especially obvious and transparent meaning.

• This interpretation is contested and generally believed to be a folk etymology.

• There is a folk etymology for the name as well.

• According to folk etymology, the name is derived from the effects of the tropical sun on their fair-skinned legs.

• Folk etymology saw the name as a compound of ("pan", all) and (beast).

• Folk etymology advocates that the word "carcamano" is composed of two separate words.

• However, this may be a folk etymology as there were other early temples in different centres with the same name.