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民間語源
【みんかんごげん】

1.

[n]
▶ folk etymology
▶ popular (but unfounded) etymology

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2864915 語源俗解【ごげんぞっかい】 1. folk etymology; popular (but unfounded) etymology

History:

3.	A 2025-04-18 04:57:03 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2.	A* 2025-04-07 09:59:02 Sombrero1
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮ │ 民間語源　　　 │ 913 │ 96.3% │Luminous, Shinsen, Daijr, Koj │ みんかんごげん │ 35 │ 3.7% │ ╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯ Shinsen: 世間に言いつたえられている、学問的でない語源。語源俗解。 5 examples on reverso: https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/民間語源
	Diff:	@@ -12,0 +13 @@ +<gloss>popular (but unfounded) etymology</gloss>
1.	A* 2025-04-06 23:29:39
	Refs:	研究社リーダーズ＋プラスＶ２

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