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- German · calque ofVolksetymologie
- English todayfolk etymology
English from the 1880s (Abram Smythe Palmer, 1882), a calque of German Volksetymologie (1820s, in 1821 as Volks-Etymologie in J. A. Schmeller's Die Mundarten Bayerns grammatisch dargestellt).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.