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FOLK ETYMOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A popular but erroneous etymology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("folk etymology" is a kind of...):
etymology (a history of a word)
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