Category:Korean terms by etymology

Korean terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Korean back-formations: Korean terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Korean blends: Korean terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Korean borrowed terms: Korean terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Korean calques: Korean calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Korean compound terms: Korean terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Korean coordinated pairs: Terms in Korean consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Korean deverbals: Korean terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Korean doublets: Korean 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:Korean ellipses: Korean terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Korean eponyms: Korean terms derived from names of real or fictitious individuals.
• Category:Korean genericized trademarks: Korean 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:Korean inherited terms: Korean terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Korean terms by interfix: Korean terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Korean internationalisms: Korean loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Korean metonyms: Korean 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:Korean neologisms: Korean terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Korean onomatopoeias: Korean terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Korean partial calques: Korean partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Korean terms by prefix: Korean terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Korean reduplications: Korean terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Korean roots: Basic morphemes from which Korean words are formed.
• Category:Korean semantic loans: Korean semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Korean words that have undergone semantic shift: Korean words that show senses explained by semantic shift.
• Category:Korean spelling pronunciations: Korean terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:Korean terms by suffix: Korean terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Korean syncopic forms: Korean words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Korean terms attributed to a specific source: Korean terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Korean terms derived from other languages: Korean terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Korean terms derived from toponyms: Korean terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Korean terms making reference to character shapes: Korean terms making reference to character shapes.
• Category:Korean univerbations: Korean terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Korean terms with unknown etymologies: Korean terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.