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Fundamental » All languages » English » Terms by etymology
English terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:English alliterative compounds: English words composed of two or more stems that alliterate.
- Category:English aphetic forms:
English words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a
loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
- Category:English apocopic forms: English words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their end.
- Category:English back-formations: English words formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:English blends: English words formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:English borrowed terms: English terms that are loanwords, i.e. words that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:English calques: English terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:English catachreses: English terms derived from misuses or misapplications of other terms.
- Category:English words by circumfix: English words categorized by their circumfixes.
- Category:English clippings: English words that were formed from another word by removing part of it, but without changing the part of speech.
- Category:English compound words: English words composed of two or more stems.
- Category:English coordinated pairs: English coordinated pairs.
- Category:English coordinated triples: English coordinated triples.
- Category:English doublets:
English terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same
source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and
often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
- Category:English ellipses: English terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:English elongated forms: English terms terms where one or more letters or sounds is repeated for emphasis or effect.
- Category:English eponyms: English terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:English genericized trademarks: English terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
- Category:English haplological forms: English words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
- Category:English homophonic translations: English terms that were borrowed by matching the etymon phonetically, without regard for the sense; compare phono-semantic matching and Hobson-Jobson.
- Category:English words by infix: English words categorized by their infixes.
- Category:English inherited terms: English terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:English words by interfix: English words categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:English metonyms:
English terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by
its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with
that thing or concept.
- Category:English neologisms: English terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:English nonce terms: English terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
- Category:English onomatopoeias: English words that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:English words by prefix: English words categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:English rebracketings: English terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:English reduplications: English terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:English retronyms: English terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
- Category:English semantic loans: English terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:English spelled-out initialisms: English initialisms in which the letter names are spelled out.
- Category:English spoonerisms:
English terms in which the initial sounds of component parts have been
exchanged, as in "crook and nanny" for "nook and cranny".
- Category:English words by suffix: English words categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:English syncopic forms:
English words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss
or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
- Category:English terms attributed to a specific source: English terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:English terms by PIE root: English terms categorized by the Proto-Indo-European root they originate from.
- Category:English terms derived from occupations: English terms derived from names of occupations.
- Category:English terms derived from other languages: English terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:English terms derived from toponyms: English terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
- Category:English terms with multiple etymologies: English terms that are derived from multiple origins.
- Category:English twice-borrowed terms: English terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from English.
- Category:English univerbations: English terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:English terms with unknown etymologies: English terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 52 subcategories, out of 52 total.
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