etymythologies

Noun

etymythology (plural etymythologies)

1. A false etymology that has become widely disseminated and thus is commonly accepted as true; a folk etymology.
   • The basic element which transforms names and placenames into narratives or narrative details is the pun. I call this process etymythology. and I show how James Joyce's knowledge of Irish onomastic and toponomastic tales, and his interest in the process which created them, was bolstered by his early...1976, Sean Valentine Golden, Bygmythster Finnegan: Etymology As Poetics In the Works of James Joyce, University of Connecticut