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folk etymologyBrE /ˈfəʊk etɪmɒlədʒi/NAmE /ˈfoʊk etɪmɑːlədʒi/ (also ˌpopular etyˈmology) noun [U, C] a process by which a word is changed, for example because of a mistaken belief that it is related to another word, 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。 |