Folk etymology and contamination in the Romance languages

‘Folk etymology’ and ‘contamination’ each involve associative formal influences between words which have no ‘etymological’ (i.e., historical), connexion. From a morphological perspective, in folk etymology a word acquires at least some elements of the structure of some other, historically unrelated,...

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Váldodahkki: Maiden, M
Materiálatiipa: Book section
Giella:English
Almmustuhtton: Oxford University Press 2020

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