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Tracing the impact of folk etymology on Hungarian surnames

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Fodor J. N., Hauber K.
Národopisný věstník
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2022
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vol. 63
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issue 2
397-409
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The paper presents the cases of folk etymology in the Hungarian family name stock. It deals with possibilities and difficulties in the interpretation of the term, as well as the differences in the use of the term between the traditional international and Hungarian linguistics. It also examines the issue of learned folk etymologies or naive etymologies as part of folk etymology with some examples from the 13th century. The paper argues that communal associations, analogies and approval play an essential role in folk etymological changes and this should be taken into consideration in the study of the phenomena. It presents examples of changes within the Hungarian language and of changes in interlingual connections throughout the latest centuries in the Carpathian Basin. Also, it introduces the case of hidden folk etymology with examples of name Magyarizations.
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K termínu "lidová etymologie" v české onomastice

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Dvořáková Ž.
Národopisný věstník
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2022
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vol. 63
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issue 2
367-378
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The term folk etymology is traditionally used to denote an erroneous, usually arbitrary connection of an etymologically opaque word to a word which is similar in the form or meaning but it is of different origin. Our approach is wider, we consider folk etymology as a part of folk linguistics. Folk (or also learned) etymology is one of the oldest methods of interpreting proper names and we can meet this phenomenon as early as in medieval chronicles. Folk interpretations often grow into size of etymological tales. They represent the period of the so-called pre-scientific etymology. However, folk etymology has not been replaced by scientific etymology, it is still alive and part of language users’ awareness. The term “folk etymology” was introduced by E. Förstemann in his paper Über deutsche Volksetymologie / About German Folk Etymology (1852) where he mentioned a whole range of examples for proper names. The term folk etymology coined by Förstemann was, despite some criticism, adopted into other languages including Czech. Three years later and independently of Förstemann, H. Wedgwood published a paper on what he called “false etymologies”. Similar terms actually appear in other languages as well but they are considered problematic as they imply something improper. Folk etymology is sometimes treated as a non-scientific deformation of a language reality, as a misleading, deceptive preconception, which the educated scientists shall make sure to remove. F. de Saussure even supported the idea of folk etymology being something “pathological”. However, this opinion of his was frequently criticised. Nowadays, we do not perceive folk etymology as something wrong which is to be corrected. In our conception, the folk etymology is understood as a natural tendency of language users to explain foreign and opaque words as well as proper names, and to interpret, search and clarify the meaning connections even if these are not present.
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