Category:Cornish terms by etymology

Cornish terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Cornish back-formations: Cornish terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Cornish blends: Cornish terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Cornish borrowed terms: Cornish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Cornish calques: Cornish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Cornish compound terms: Cornish terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Cornish doublets: Cornish 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:Cornish inherited terms: Cornish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Cornish internationalisms: Cornish loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Cornish onomatopoeias: Cornish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Cornish partial calques: Cornish partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Cornish terms by prefix: Cornish terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Cornish reduplications: Cornish terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Cornish terms by suffix: Cornish terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Cornish terms derived from other languages: Cornish terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Cornish univerbations: Cornish terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Cornish terms with unknown etymologies: Cornish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.