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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.

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