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Folk etymology and Mandarin Chinese

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Difference between Folk etymology and Mandarin Chinese

Folk etymology vs. Mandarin Chinese

Folk etymology or reanalysis – sometimes called pseudo-etymology, popular etymology, or analogical reformation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one. Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

Similarities between Folk etymology and Mandarin Chinese

Folk etymology and Mandarin Chinese have 2 things in common (in Unionpedia): Affix, Sanskrit.

Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Folk etymology and Mandarin Chinese Comparison

Folk etymology has 81 relations, while Mandarin Chinese has 230. As they have in common 2, the Jaccard index is 0.64% = 2 / (81 + 230).

References

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