a popular but mistaken account of the origin of a word or phrase
通俗词源。
[mass noun]the process by which the form of an unfamiliar or foreign word is adapted to a more familiar form through popular usage
词的通俗变化。
n. 通俗词源;词的通俗变化
Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg.
民间词源创造了cheeseburger和beanburger,但最初hamburger一词实际上是以德国汉堡市命名的。
He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.
他显然是错了,但几个世纪后,他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。
Abstr: This article briefly describes the folk etymology and illustrates some folk etymology phenomenon of Uyghur, at the same time, explains the reasons of existing folk etymology.
文章摘要:文章举例阐述维吾尔语中民间词源现象及探讨民间词源学继续存在的原因。
Folk-etymology concerns the particular variation phenomenon of lexical meanings during the language evolution.
流俗词源就是语言演变过程中出现的特殊词义变异现象。
a popular but mistaken account of the origin of a word or phrase
通俗词源。
[mass noun]the process by which the form of an unfamiliar or foreign word is adapted to a more familiar form through popular usage
词的通俗变化。