Leksikoloogia konspekt (uus)
French, French
Genteel/gentle
Dragon/dragoon
14. Folk etymology
Change in a word or phrase over time resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more
familiar one. Unanalyzable borrowings from foreign languages, like asparagus, or old compounds such
as samblind which have lost their iconic motivation (since one or more of the morphemes making them
up, like sam-, which meant "semi-", has become obscure) are reanalyzed in a more or less semantically
plausible way, yielding, in these examples, sparrow grass and sandblind.
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o Foreign words
Cucaracha – cockroach
o One part of the word becoming obsolete
Isle-land – island
Samblind – sandblind
15. Archaisms