He shares the almost immemorial use of exegetical etymologizing, which is finally canonized in the encyclopedic Etymologiae of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

"Five beks" sounds like classic folk etymologizing or eggcorning to me, and if it were even remotely plausible I think Pospelov would have mentioned it.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK.] Reference

Perhaps one could do better in etymologizing shanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3] Reference

1Frankly I'm not sure what the problem is in etymologizing this name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentina, an Etruscanized Latin name] Reference

(1774-76) mixes fanciful etymologizing with the theories of French philosophes; Captain Wilford (1804) or H.T. Colebrooke (1824-27) are antiquarian Indic enthusiasts; the Druidic mythologists — from William.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

And truly, my lord, to express the real truth without dissimulation, I cannot but say that those petty subtle devices which are found out in the etymologizing of pattens would descend more easily into the river of Seine, to serve for ever at the millers 'bridge upon the said water, as it was heretofore decreed by the king of the Canarians, according to the sentence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk's office of this house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

And truly, my lord, to express the real truth without dissimulation, I cannot but say that those petty subtle devices which are found out in the etymologizing of pattens would descend more easily into the river of Seine, to serve for ever at the millers’ bridge upon the said water, as it was heretofore decreed by the king of the Canarians, according to the sentence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk’s office of this house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference