Category:Maltese terms by etymology
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Fundamental » All languages » Maltese » Terms by etymology
Maltese terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Maltese back-formations: Maltese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- 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 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 onomatopoeias: Maltese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Maltese terms by prefix: Maltese terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Maltese reduplications: Maltese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- 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.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
B
- Maltese back-formations (0 c, 8 e)
C
- Maltese compound terms (0 c, 299 e)
D
- Maltese doublets (0 c, 32 e)
I
- Maltese internationalisms (0 c, 23 e)
O
- Maltese onomatopoeias (0 c, 19 e)
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R
- Maltese reduplications (0 c, 1 e)
S
T
U
- Maltese univerbations (0 c, 25 e)
- Maltese terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 11 e)