paronymic attraction

noun

paronymic attraction

noun

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The phenomenon of similar-sounding native words (paronyms) affecting the development of loan words.

Related terms: mishearing, eggcorn, folk etymology, reanalysis, rebracketing, catachresis, malapropism, misconstruction, mondegreen, Hobson-Jobson, phono-semantic matching

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