popular etymology

It hurts me to pour icy water upon that straw-grasping desperation that is popular etymology - ie the jolly tales that would seem so perfect when tracing a word's background.

The old interpretation “save, now!” which may be a popular etymology, is based on Ps. cxviii.

Popular etymology has connected the word with “good”; this is exemplified by the corruption of “God be with you” into “good-bye.”

It is probable then that there is a triple popular etymology in the various forms of writing the name Aššur; viz.

Beyond Tomi, where a popular etymology fixed the ‘cutting up’ of Apsyrtos, we need not follow the fortunes of Jason and Medea.