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folk-etymological

folk-etymological adjective: pertaining to folk etymology.

Adjective

folk-etymological (comparative more folk-etymological, superlative most folk-etymological)

  1. Pertaining to folk etymology.
    • In fact, it would seem that puerca is the folketymological form; […]1905, Lee Milton Hollander, Prefixal S in Germanic, Together with the Etymologies of Fratze, Schraube, Guter Dinge, Baltimore, Md.: J. H. Furst Company, page 29
    • Zafarambol (Zafranbolu, Safranbolu). The name has not been explained properly (Ramsay, HG 324, from Θεοδωρίαν πόλιν is impossible; Wittek, Byz. 10 [1935] 40 note 4: from (εἰ)ς Άδριανούπολιν with folketymological transformation is not convincing); […]1971, Demetrius J[ohn] Georgacas, The Names for the Asia Minor Peninsula and a Register of Surviving Anatolian Pre-Turkish Placenames, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, page 121

Forms of folk-etymological

comparativemore folk-etymological
superlativemost folk-etymological

Questions about folk-etymological

What does folk-etymological mean?
Folk-etymological means pertaining to folk etymology.
What part of speech is folk-etymological?
Folk-etymological is an adjective.

Words near folk-etymological in the dictionary

  1. folk tune
  2. folk way
  3. folk ways
  4. folk's-glove
  5. folk-blues
  6. folk-etymological
  7. folk-etymologically
  8. folk-etymologize
  9. folk-etymologized
  10. folk-etymologizes
  11. folk-etymologizing

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