Paronymic attraction
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Paronymic attraction
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Paronymic attraction is popular or folk etymology arising from similarity of appearance or sound. It is the distorting effect exerted on a word by one of its paronyms according to etymology and onomastics. Paronymic attraction is the origin of many names. There are even cross-linguistic instances of such attractions. For example, the resemblance between the Romanian word locaţie and the English word location helped a semantic shift of the former word to include the latter sense. Paronymic attrac
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2024-04-07T15:25:51Z
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