hamantashen

[Benjamin Fortson]

Just on basic principles, I doubt seriously that "Mohntaschen" would have
changed to "Hamantaschen" by folk-etymology. Folk etymology tends not to
affect morphologically and semantically transparent lexemes, and
Mohntaschen is both. There's also not a lot of phonetic similarity between
"Mohn" and "Haman".

But that is just a seat-of-the-pants reaction. I don't know what the facts
are in this case.

Ben