Category:Middle English terms by etymology

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Middle English terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Middle English aphetic forms: Middle English words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Middle English apocopic forms: Middle English words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Middle English back-formations: Middle English terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Middle English blends: Middle English terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Middle English borrowed terms: Middle English terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Middle English calques: Middle English calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Middle English compound terms: Middle English terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Middle English doublets: Middle 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:Middle English inherited terms: Middle English terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Middle English nonce terms: Middle English terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:Middle English onomatopoeias: Middle English terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Middle English partial calques: Middle English partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Middle English terms by prefix: Middle English terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Middle English reconstructed terms: Middle English terms that are not directly attested, but have been reconstructed through other evidence.
• Category:Middle English semantic loans: Middle English semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Middle English terms by suffix: Middle English terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Middle English syncopic forms: Middle English words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Middle English terms derived from other languages: Middle English terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Middle English twice-borrowed terms: Middle English terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from Middle English.
• Category:Middle English terms with unknown etymologies: Middle English terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.