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Fundamental » All languages » Welsh » Terms by etymology
Welsh terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Welsh aphetic forms: Welsh words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
- Category:Welsh apocopic forms: Welsh words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
- Category:Welsh back-formations: Welsh terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Welsh blends: Welsh terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Welsh borrowed terms: Welsh terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Welsh calques: Welsh calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Welsh compound terms: Welsh terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Welsh deverbals: Welsh terms derived from a verb.
- Category:Welsh doublets: Welsh 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:Welsh eponyms: Welsh terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Welsh inherited terms: Welsh terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Welsh metonyms: Welsh 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:Welsh onomatopoeias: Welsh terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Welsh partial calques: Welsh partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Welsh terms by prefix: Welsh terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Welsh rebracketings: Welsh terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Welsh semantic loans: Welsh semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Welsh terms by suffix: Welsh terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Welsh syncopic forms: Welsh words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
- Category:Welsh terms attributed to a specific source: Welsh terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:Welsh terms derived from other languages: Welsh terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Welsh terms derived from toponyms: Welsh terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
- Category:Welsh univerbations: Welsh terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Welsh terms with unknown etymologies: Welsh terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
A
- Welsh aphetic forms (0 c, 1 e)
- Welsh apocopic forms (0 c, 3 e)
B
- Welsh back-formations (0 c, 14 e)
- Welsh blends (0 c, 3 e)
C
- Welsh compound terms (0 c, 1208 e)
D
- Welsh deverbals (0 c, 3 e)
- Welsh doublets (0 c, 89 e)
E
- Welsh eponyms (0 c, 3 e)
I
M
- Welsh metonyms (0 c, 1 e)
O
- Welsh onomatopoeias (0 c, 10 e)
P
R
- Welsh rebracketings (0 c, 1 e)
S
- Welsh syncopic forms (0 c, 2 e)
T
- Welsh terms derived from toponyms (0 c, 1 e)
U
- Welsh univerbations (0 c, 1 e)
- Welsh terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 10 e)