Category: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 coordinated pairs: Terms in Welsh consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• 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 ellipses: Welsh terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• 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 internationalisms: Welsh loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• 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 neologisms: Welsh terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• 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 reduplications: Welsh terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• 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.