📚 noun • entry_id 11146
folk etymology
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reanálisis morfémico
A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with island, belfry, and hangnail.
SURCEASE owes its form and meaning to a remarkable folk-etymology, as has been pointed out by Prof. Skeat:—"It is obvious, from the usual spelling, that this word is popularly supp…
Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.' [...] Subsequently, on the analogy of thi…
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms