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

However, each of these has a folk etymology and an additional meaning.

This folk etymology is however not supported by the historical record.

Folk etymologies often have a life of their own.

Surname origins have been the subject of much folk etymology.

Folk etymology holds a different explanation of the name's derivation.

His inclusion in the Chronicle is believed to be the product of folk etymology.

Attempts to link the word to the biblical character Job seem to be folk etymology.

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

Though this may be folk etymology, it is plausible, particularly in the absence of other suggestions.

It is likely a result of folk etymology.

The phrase has been the subject of numerous fanciful folk etymologies ever since.

But the etymology of the name has been given many different interpretations and folk etymologies that are still used today.

Another common folk etymology explanation is that the "blue" refers to the color of the sky, or heaven.

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

This contrasts with the popular but false folk etymology that the town was named for the bard.

This folk etymology, though embraced enthusiastically by city leaders, is unverifiable.

The scientific name Ginkgo appears to be due to a process akin to folk etymology.

Sometimes folk etymology has totally obscured the Gaelic origins of a name.

However, according to Mahn, this theory may be an example of folk etymology.

See the following articles that discuss folk etymologies for their subjects:

While folk etymology might be at play here, this explanation certainly seems possible and may explain another etymological puzzle.

The story is just folk etymology, really.

This seems to be a folk etymology without support in the Mandaean texts.

Probably this is a mnemonic turned folk etymology.

By the popular etymology, the name of the village means "a bread place".

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

Popular etymologies are also mentioned, coming from Ottoman and Romanian traditions.

The ideogram means "house or place of fish," and was perhaps due to popular etymology (comp.

This is popular etymology at best.

While this interpretation may have given rise to such positions in 19th-century manuals, it probably arose by popular etymology.

In medieval Islamic sources there is also a "fictional" and popular etymology of the words as "lines of lab".

One popular etymology relates to railways.

A widespread popular etymology of Bombay holds that it was derived from a Portuguese name meaning "good bay".

Popular etymology ascribes a French origin to the toponym, giving an interpretation as "dangerous nose".

By degrees, popular etymology connected the word both with "corn" and "oak-horn", and the spelling changed accordingly.

Popular etymology associated the mansion's name with the initials of its owner, Anton Kokalj (1851-1938).

Medieval popular etymology also associated it (wrongly) with derivations from the Latin impetere (to attack).

The variant in spelling results from the contaminating influence (so-called popular etymology) of French compte "account".

The popular etymology of the town's name derives it from the River Penk, which flows through it.

The surname 'Tiku' is derived from "trika", according to popular etymology.

A popular etymology mistakenly associates the names with the word ael, meaning "angel" in modern Breton.

It is probable then that there is a triple popular etymology in the various forms of writing the name Assur; viz.

The Greeks invented etymologies to associate it with Greek word roots (one such popular etymology translates the name as "he who washes away care").

Though there is a popular etymology that the name refers to some unspecified murder, a more likely etymology is 'Moorpath'.

The most popular etymology of the word pumpernickel bread - that Napoleon described it as "C'est pain pour Nicole!"

The origin of Tiberius was obscure even in Roman times, although popular etymology sometimes connected it with the ancient city of Tibur.

Popular etymology hold that the word "snob" comes from "sine nobilitate" or "sans noblesse" meaning "without nobility".

The village itself was founded no later than the first half of the 18th century, with the name being derived from the word med ("honey") according to popular etymology.

Roman authors equated her with the goddess Flora, suggesting that the initial sound of her name may have got altered by Latin speakers (a popular etymology).