false etymology in a sentence
Examples
- Either through false etymology or deliberate word play, the name also came to be associated with the Latin phrase " Domus Dei " ( " House of God " ).
- :: As with certain other countries, language and politics are intertwined, and often false etymologies are offered either as proof of nationalist ownership or in order to expel foreign influences.
- If you can't do that, it must remain an armchair supposition or an example of false etymology .-- [ Talk ] 23 : 44, 4 June 2013 ( UTC)
- This Mamercus is said to have received the name of " Aemilius " because of the persuasiveness of his language ( ?? ???????? ????? ), although such a derivation is certainly false etymology.
- A famous false etymology states that the word stems from the supposed perception that the Irish spoke English so peculiarly that it was as if they did so " with a shoe in their mouths ".
- The earliest French works refer only to the longways form as " contradanse ", which allowed the false etymology of " a dance in which lines dance opposite one another " . and the cotillion.
- There is no evidence for another popular false etymology ( folk etymology ) that " hidalgo " is a corruption for " hijo de godo " ( " son of the goth " ).
- The Egyptians also devised false etymologies giving more meanings to divine names . while one in the Pyramid Texts says the name is based on words shouted by Osiris, connecting Sokar with the most important funerary deity.
- But the story has all the meretricious appeal of classic false etymology _ the kind of story that tells us sleep tight comes from rope beds and threshold from the " thresh " on a dirt floor.
- This false etymology is further entrenched by the fact that in Dutch the word " hoop " is a homograph meaning " hope " as well as " heap ", though the two senses have different etymologies.