查询词典 folk etymology

Folk etymology: a change in form of a word or phrase,resulting from an incorrect popular notion of the origin or meaning of the term or from the influence of more familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous.

指词或短语的形式由于对词源的错误而又普遍的解释或对词义的错误理解，或者由于受到更熟悉的词汇的影响而进行错误的类推，导致了新的意义的产生。

A linguistic process called folk etymology is observed frequently in regional U.S. dialects.

一种叫作大众词源学的语言过程，经常出现在美国地区方言中。

Folk etymology causes an unfamiliar and difficult word to be replaced with a similar-sounding word or phrase whose meaning happens to coincide in a way that makes sense.

大众词源使一些不熟悉的和困难的词用一个有相似发音的词或词组代替，后者的意思恰好在某种程度上符合原义。

The word Gilead is also linked -- through a folk etymology -- with the idea of witnessing.

按通俗变化语，吉利厄德还有"见证"的意思。

The word woodchuck is probably a folk etymology of a New England Algonquian word—that is, English-speaking settlers "translated" the Indian word into a compound of two words that made sense to them in light of the animal's habitat.

woodchuck 这个词可能是新英格兰阿尔贡金语中民间起源的语汇──就是说，讲英语的殖民者的把这个印度语单词根据这种动物的习性"翻"成了两个字的合成词，以使其有意义

Folk etymology—the process by which an unfamiliar element in a word is changed to resemble a more familiar word,often one that is semantically associated with the word being refashioned—has triumphed once again,thus denying us the direct borrowing of aru-aru and giving us arrowroot instead.

词的通俗变化就是比较陌生的词被比较熟悉的词所替代的过程，常常是被一个语义上与被翻新的词有联系的词。这里，通俗词汇学又一次取得胜利，不允许我们直接借用 aru-aru ，而是另给了我们一个 arrowroot 。

The Sumerian name Enki seen as "Lord Earth"(en 'lord', ki 'earth') is a case of folk etymology, because the name is originally enki, with -g appearing in connections.

苏美尔语的名字恩奇被看成"大地之主"（恩是"主"，奇是"大地"），是文字之通俗变化的一个例子，因为原本名字是恩奇格，末尾以g作为关联。

Traditions in the Midrash concerning Lilith, and her sexual appetite, have been compared to Sumerian mythology concerning the demon ki-sikil-lil-la-ke, by scholars who postulate an intermediate Akkadian folk etymology interpreting the lil-la-ke portion of the name as a corruption of lilitu, literally meaning female night demon.

在《米德拉西》的传统里面，有关莉莉丝以及她的性取向问题，可以比作闪族人神话中的魔鬼 ki-sikil-lil-la-ke ，被学者们假定的一种阿卡德语词源学解释的一个媒介，名字的其中一部分 lil-la-ke 是 lilitu 的一个源头，字面意思是"夜间的女魔鬼"。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。