Category:Tamil terms by etymology

Tamil terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Tamil apheretic forms: Tamil words that underwent apheresis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Tamil apocopic forms: Tamil words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Tamil back-formations: Tamil terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Tamil blends: Tamil terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Tamil borrowed terms: Tamil terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Tamil calques: Tamil calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Tamil compound terms: Tamil terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Tamil coordinated pairs: Terms in Tamil consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Tamil words derived through corruption: Tamil words that result from a non-specific or sporadic change.
• Category:Tamil doublets: Tamil 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:Tamil ellipses: Tamil terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Tamil inherited terms: Tamil terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Tamil terms by interfix: Tamil terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Tamil internationalisms: Tamil loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Tamil metonyms: Tamil 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:Tamil neologisms: Tamil terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Tamil onomatopoeias: Tamil terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Tamil partial calques: Tamil partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Tamil terms by prefix: Tamil terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Tamil reduplications: Tamil terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Tamil retronyms: Tamil terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Tamil Sanskritic formations: Tamil terms coined from tatsama words and/or affixes.
• Category:Tamil semantic loans: Tamil semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Tamil words that have undergone semantic shift: Tamil words that show senses explained by semantic shift.
• Category:Tamil terms by suffix: Tamil terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Tamil terms derived from other languages: Tamil terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Tamil terms derived from toponyms: Tamil terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Tamil terms with unknown etymologies: Tamil terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.