Category:Cantonese terms by etymology
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Cantonese terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Cantonese back-formations: Cantonese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Cantonese blends: Cantonese terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Cantonese borrowed terms: Cantonese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Cantonese calques: Cantonese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Cantonese compound terms: Cantonese terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Cantonese doublets: Cantonese 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:Cantonese ellipses: Cantonese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Cantonese eponyms: Cantonese terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Cantonese onomatopoeias: Cantonese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Cantonese partial calques: Cantonese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Cantonese terms by prefix: Cantonese terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Cantonese rebracketings: Cantonese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Cantonese reduplications: Cantonese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Cantonese semantic loans: Cantonese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Cantonese spelling pronunciations: Cantonese terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
- Category:Cantonese terms derived from other languages: Cantonese terms that originate from other languages.
Subcategories
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
B
- Cantonese back-formations (0 c, 2 e)
- Cantonese blends (0 c, 3 e)
C
- Cantonese compound terms (0 c, 27 e)
D
- Cantonese doublets (0 c, 16 e)
E
- Cantonese ellipses (0 c, 1 e)
- Cantonese eponyms (0 c, 1 e)
O
- Cantonese onomatopoeias (0 c, 16 e)
P
R
- Cantonese rebracketings (0 c, 1 e)
- Cantonese reduplications (0 c, 6 e)
S
- Cantonese spelling pronunciations (0 c, 1 e)
T
- Cantonese terms borrowed back into Cantonese (0 c, 6 e)