folk etymology
noun /ˈfəʊk etɪmɒlədʒi/
/ˈfəʊk etɪmɑːlədʒi/
(also popular etymology)
[uncountable, countable]- a popular but wrong belief about the origin of a word or phrase
民间词源： 关于单词或短语起源的普遍但错误的信念- This explanation may simply be a folk etymology.
这个解释可能只是一个民间词源。
- This explanation may simply be a folk etymology.
- a process by which a word is changed, for example because people believe that it is related to another word, even though it is not, or to make a foreign word sound more familiar
民间词源；俗词源学 - 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。
- Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg.