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- folk-etymology (n.)[folk-etymology 词源字典]
- 1890; see folk (n.) + etymology.
By Folk-etymology is meant the influence exercised upon words, both as to their form and meaning, by the popular use and misuse of them. In a special sense, it is intended to denote the corruption which words undergo, owing either to false ideas about their derivation, or to a mistaken analogy with other words to which they are supposed to be related. [The Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, "Folk-Etymology," 1890]
[folk-etymology etymology, folk-etymology origin, 英语词源] - I-ety
- "= I-hood", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866), letter writer.