Category:English terms by etymology
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English terms categorized by their etymologies.
- 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(s) from their end.
- Category:English back-formations: English terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:English blends: English terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:English borrowed terms: English terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:English calques: English calques, i.e. 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 terms by circumfix: English terms categorized by their circumfixes.
- Category:English compound terms: English terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:English coordinated pairs: Terms in English consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
- Category:English coordinated quadruples: Terms in English consisting of four terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
- Category:English coordinated quintuples: Terms in English consisting of five terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
- Category:English coordinated triples: Terms in English consisting of three terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
- Category:English deverbals: English terms derived from a verb.
- 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 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 ghost words: English terms that were originally erroneous or fictitious, published in a reference work as if they were genuine as a result of typographical error, misreading, or misinterpretation, or as fictitious entries, jokes, or hoaxes.
- Category:English haplological words: 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 hybridisms: English terms formed by elements of different linguistic origins.
- Category:English terms by infix: English terms categorized by their infixes.
- Category:English inherited terms: English terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:English terms by interfix: English terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:English internationalisms: English loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
- Category:English words derived through metathesis: English words that were created through metathesis from another word.
- 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 numeronyms: English terms that contain numerals.
- Category:English onomatopoeias: English terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:English partial calques: English partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:English piecewise doublets: English terms that are piecewise doublets.
- Category:English terms by prefix: English terms 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 rebuses: English rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
- 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 semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:English sound-symbolic terms: English terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
- Category:English spelled-out initialisms: English initialisms in which the letter names are spelled out.
- Category:English spelling pronunciations: English terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
- 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 terms by suffix: English terms 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 coined ex nihilo: English terms fabricated ex nihilo, i.e. made up entirely rather than being derived from an existing source.
- Category:English terms containing fossilized case endings: English terms which preserve case morphology which is no longer analyzable within the contemporary grammatical system or which has been entirely lost from the language.
- Category:English terms derived from area codes: English terms derived from area codes.
- Category:English terms derived from other languages: English terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:English terms derived from the shape of letters: English terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
- Category:English terms derived from toponyms: English terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
- 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 69 subcategories, out of 69 total.
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- English etymological appendices (0 c, 23 e)
A
- English terms with alpha privatives (0 c, 22 e)
- English aphetic forms (0 c, 61 e)
- English apocopic forms (0 c, 11 e)
B
- English back-formations (0 c, 953 e)
- English blends (0 c, 7349 e)
C
- English catachreses (0 c, 3 e)
- English conversions (0 c, 0 e)
D
- English deverbals (0 c, 668 e)
- English doublets (0 c, 6990 e)
E
- English ellipses (0 c, 1505 e)
- English elongated forms (0 c, 84 e)
G
- English genericized trademarks (0 c, 758 e)
- English ghost words (0 c, 32 e)
H
- English haplological words (0 c, 19 e)
- English homophonic translations (0 c, 3 e)
I
- English internationalisms (0 c, 1 e)
M
- English words derived through metathesis (0 c, 2 e)
- English metonyms (0 c, 242 e)
N
- English neologisms (0 c, 961 e)
- English nonce terms (0 c, 289 e)
- English numeronyms (0 c, 76 e)
O
- English onomatopoeias (0 c, 634 e)
P
- English piecewise doublets (0 c, 83 e)
- English Pig Latin terms (0 c, 9 e)
R
- English rebracketings (0 c, 33 e)
- English retronyms (0 c, 274 e)
S
- English terms first attested in Shakespeare (0 c, 52 e)
- English sound-symbolic terms (0 c, 13 e)
- English spelled-out initialisms (0 c, 38 e)
- English spelling pronunciations (0 c, 39 e)
- English spoonerisms (0 c, 23 e)
- English syncopic forms (0 c, 28 e)
T
- English terms borrowed back into English (0 c, 257 e)
- English terms coined ex nihilo (0 c, 9 e)
- English terms derived from area codes (0 c, 10 e)
- English terms derived from the shape of letters (0 c, 221 e)
- English terms derived from toponyms (0 c, 747 e)
U
- English univerbations (0 c, 49 e)
- English terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 1973 e)