Category:Maltese terms by etymology

Maltese terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Maltese apocopic forms: Maltese words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Maltese back-formations: Maltese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Maltese blends: Maltese terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Maltese borrowed terms: Maltese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Maltese calques: Maltese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Maltese compound terms: Maltese terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Maltese doublets: Maltese 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:Maltese ellipses: Maltese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Maltese inherited terms: Maltese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Maltese internationalisms: Maltese loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Maltese words derived through metathesis: Maltese words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Maltese onomatopoeias: Maltese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Maltese partial calques: Maltese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Maltese terms by prefix: Maltese terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Maltese reconstructed terms: Maltese terms that are not directly attested, but have been reconstructed through other evidence.
• Category:Maltese reduplications: Maltese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Maltese roots: Basic morphemes from which Maltese words are formed.
• Category:Maltese semantic loans: Maltese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Maltese terms by suffix: Maltese terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Maltese terms attributed to a specific source: Maltese terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Maltese terms by root: Maltese terms categorized by the root they originate from.
• Category:Maltese terms derived from other languages: Maltese terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Maltese univerbations: Maltese terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Maltese terms with unknown etymologies: Maltese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.