A népetimológiáról kognitív keretben.

The study deals with folk etymology (resemantization, secondary semantic motivation) using a cognitive approach. First, the linguistic process of folk etymology is addressed, followed by the discussion of its onomastic aspects. Folk etymology is a complex process that affects both poles of linguistic elements, the word form and the meaning alike. The reason for this is to be found in general cognitive mechanisms including analogy, pattern matching and distribution analysis. Based on this, both main types, prototypical folk etymology (unconscious reinterpretation of an opaque form) and intentional reshaping and resemantization of a word, are universal and we may encounter them in historical times as well as today even if only a small fraction of the individual forms created this way become conventionalized. The process affects common noun and proper name elements similarly, however, the analyses studying more extensive name corpuses do not confirm the earlier opinion that folk etymology in general would be more decisive in the formation of the onomastic corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]