In a short article the German librarian and historian Ernst Förstemann (1852) raises the issue about folk etymology being a new branch of linguistics and outlines three areas of etymological work: folk etymology, scientific etymology and forced etymology.
The present article provides interesting examples of forced etymology in Bulgarian lexicology.
Key words: folk etymology, scientific etymology, forced etymology
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