Category:French etymologies

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This category contains French etymologies: French terms categorized by their etymologies.^[edit]

• Category:French apocopic forms: French words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their end.
• Category:French blends: French words formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:French compound words: French words composed of two or more stems.
• Category:French calques: French terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:French reduplications: French terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:French neologisms: French terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:French eponyms: French terms derived from names of real or fictitious people. 
  

Subcategories

This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.

A [×] French apocopic forms‎ (0 c, 28 e) B [×] French back-formations‎ (0 c, 3 e) [×] French blends‎ (0 c, 25 e) [×] French borrowed terms‎ (0 c, 94 e) C [×] French calques‎ (0 c, 16 e) [×] French compound words‎ (0 c, 84 e)

E [×] French ellipses‎ (0 c, 6 e) [×] French eponyms‎ (0 c, 17 e) N [×] French neologisms‎ (0 c, 4 e) O [×] French onomatopoeias‎ (0 c, 4 e) [+] French terms derived from other languages‎ (20 c, 0 e) P [+] French words by prefix‎ (225 c, 0 e)

R [×] French reduplications‎ (0 c, 19 e) S [+] French words by suffix‎ (167 c, 0 e) T [×] Terms derived from Cajun French‎ (0 c, 0 e) U [×] French terms with unknown etymologies‎ (0 c, 3 e)