{"id":49079,"date":"2020-11-20T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=49079"},"modified":"2020-11-27T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:02:08","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-folk-etymology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/11\/20\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-folk-etymology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Folk etymology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The list of words first recorded from 1976 in the <\/span>Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>OED<\/span><\/i>; Table 1) includes, unusually, an erroneous coinage. The words \u201cinotropism\u201d, \u201cinotropic\u201d, and \u201cinotropy\u201d all relate to the contractility of muscle, typically in reference to cardiac muscle. They entered English in 1902\u20135, derived from the German word inotrop, first used by TW Engelmann in 1896, and taken from the genitive form, \u1f34\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2, of the Greek word, \u1f34\u03c2, meaning a sinew or tendon and hence muscle or strength. However, some have made the error of writing \u201cionotropic\u201d or \u201cionotropy\u201d instead, perhaps through confusion with \u201cionotropy\u201d meaning a type of chemical change that occurs when an ion detaches from a molecule and reattaches to another part of it, resulting in a tautomeric form. <\/span><\/p>\n

That the error <\/span>persists<\/span><\/a> today is perhaps understandable, since, for example, <\/span>cardiac glycosides<\/span><\/a> produce positive cardiac inotropy by inhibiting the transmembrane movements of sodium and potassium ions via the Na\/K pump. <\/span>Calcium sensitizers<\/span><\/a> have positive inotropic effects by being what their name says; some, such as levosimendan, also act on ATP-dependent potassium channels. However, the error cannot have originated by confusion with ionic mechanisms, since the first instance, reporting results described in a paper in <\/span>Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archiv f\u00fcr experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie<\/span><\/i>, was published in 1939, when such mechanisms had not yet been described.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Table 1.<\/b> Biomedical words (n=48) in the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> for which the earliest citations are from 1976 (out of a total of 296); I have found five antedatings, from 1 to 46 years<\/span>
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\n*Antedatings: pharmacovigilance (<\/span>1975<\/span><\/a>), endorphin (<\/span>1975<\/span><\/a>), osmolyte (<\/span>1973<\/span><\/a>), Leboyer [method\/style\/way] (<\/span>1974<\/span><\/a>), oromandibular (<\/span>1930<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Figure 1.<\/b> The earliest recorded instance of \u201cionotropic\u201d meaning \u201cinotropic\u201d; from J Allergy<\/em> 1939; 191: 545<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> brands these erroneous usages \u201calterations\u201d, an etymologist\u2019s euphemism for \u201cmistakes\u201d. The word is also used to describe words that come about through folk etymology, which the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> defines as \u201cthe popular perversion of [a] form of words in order to render it apparently significant\u201d. In simpler terms, it occurs when people incorrectly infer the origin of a word phrase and change the form of the word to accord with their view of how it came about. It is also used to refer simply to an incorrect view of the etymology of a word, without necessarily leading to a change in its form. It is sometimes also called \u201creanalysis\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHiccough\u201d for example, is an incorrect spelling of <\/span>hiccup<\/span><\/a>, because it is supposedly related to coughing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isidore of Seville is responsible for the misspelling of \u201c<\/span>fetus<\/span><\/a>\u201d with an added <\/span>o<\/span><\/i>. He reasoned that it came from the Latin foveo, I keep warm, rather than feto, I breed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The origin of the word \u201cmarijuana\u201d, which I discussed <\/span>last week<\/span><\/a>, is unknown. It may come from a Nahuatl word, \u201cmallihuan\u201d, which means a prisoner, referring to what it does to the mind. Folk etymology then converted this, via the Spanish name Mar\u00eda-Juana, to marijuana. Slang variants include Mary, Mary Jane, Mary and Johnny, Mary Ann, and Mary Warner.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IndoEuropean root [S]MER, meaning grease or fat, gives us words such as smear, smorgasbord, literally goose-fat table, and <\/span>Myristica<\/span><\/i>, the nutmeg genus, at one time used as an unguent. But folk etymology dropped the <\/span>s<\/span><\/i> and replaced the <\/span>r<\/span><\/i> with a <\/span>d<\/span><\/i>, influenced by the Latin word medius, middle, producing the smeary substance in the middle of bones, medulla, marrow. Whence the pithy medulla oblongata and renal and adrenal medullae.<\/span><\/p>\n

An old Marathi word meaning cholera, mo\u1e0da\u015b\u012b, adopted into Portuguese as \u201cmordexim\u201d, became a now obsolete English word for the disease, mordisheen. Folk etymology then produced \u201cmort-de-chien\u201d, as if it was something to do with death from the bite of a dog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An algorithm is a process or set of rules that is used in computing, machine translation, and linguistics. The <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> defines its medical use as \u201ca step-by-step procedure for reaching a clinical decision or diagnosis, often set out in the form of a flow chart, in which the answer to each question determines the next question to be asked.\u201d Algorism is an Arabic system of counting, named after the ninth century mathematician Abu Ja\u2019far Mohammed Ben Musa al-Khowarazmi. In the 17<\/span>th<\/span> century, folk etymology turned \u201calgorism\u201d into \u201calgorithm\u201d, by confusion with words such as arithmetic and logarithm, which come from the Greek word for a number, \u1f00\u03c1\u03b9\u03b8\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2. \u201cAlgorithm\u201d then sometimes undergoes further torturing, becoming \u201calgorhythm\u201d, as in a <\/span>paper<\/span><\/a> about amiodarone, describing an \u201cadvanced paediatric life support algorhythm for malignant ventricular arrhythmias\u201d. And there was I thinking that I\u2019d been using amiodarone as an antialgorhythmic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n

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The list of words first recorded from 1976 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED; Table 1) includes, unusually, an erroneous coinage. The words \u201cinotropism\u201d, \u201cinotropic\u201d, and \u201cinotropy\u201d all relate to […]<\/p>\n

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