Category:English terms by etymology

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English terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:English aphetic forms: English words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:English apocopic forms: English words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:English back-formations: English terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:English blends: English terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:English borrowed terms: English terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:English calques: English calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:English catachreses: English terms derived from misuses or misapplications of other terms.
• Category:English terms by circumfix: English terms categorized by their circumfixes.
• Category:English compound terms: English terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:English coordinated pairs: Terms in English consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:English coordinated quadruples: Terms in English consisting of four terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
• Category:English coordinated quintuples: Terms in English consisting of five terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
• Category:English coordinated triples: Terms in English consisting of three terms joined by one or more coordinating conjunctions.
• Category:English deverbals: English terms derived from a verb.
• Category:English doublets: 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:English ellipses: English terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:English elongated forms: English terms where one or more letters or sounds is repeated for emphasis or effect.
• Category:English eponyms: English terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:English genericized trademarks: English terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
• Category:English ghost words: English terms that were originally erroneous or fictitious, published in a reference work as if they were genuine as a result of typographical error, misreading, or misinterpretation, or as fictitious entries, jokes, or hoaxes.
• Category:English haplological words: English words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:English homophonic translations: English terms that were borrowed by matching the etymon phonetically, without regard for the sense; compare phono-semantic matching and Hobson-Jobson.
• Category:English hybridisms: English terms formed by elements of different linguistic origins.
• Category:English terms by infix: English terms categorized by their infixes.
• Category:English inherited terms: English terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:English terms by interfix: English terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:English internationalisms: English loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:English words derived through metathesis: English words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:English metonyms: English 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:English neologisms: English terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:English nonce terms: English terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:English numeronyms: English terms that serve as number-based names.
• Category:English onomatopoeias: English terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:English partial calques: English partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:English piecewise doublets: English terms that are piecewise doublets.
• Category:English terms by prefix: English terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:English rebracketings: English terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:English reduplications: English terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:English retronyms: English terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:English semantic loans: English semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:English sound-symbolic terms: English terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:English spelled-out initialisms: English initialisms in which the letter names are spelled out.
• Category:English spelling pronunciations: English terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:English spoonerisms: English terms in which the initial sounds of component parts have been exchanged, as in "crook and nanny" for "nook and cranny".
• Category:English terms by suffix: English terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:English syncopic forms: English words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:English terms attributed to a specific source: English terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:English terms containing fossilized case endings: English terms which preserve case morphology which is no longer analyzable within the contemporary grammatical system or which has been entirely lost from the language.
• Category:English terms derived from area codes: English terms derived from area codes.
• Category:English terms derived from other languages: English terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:English terms derived from the shape of letters: English terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
• Category:English terms derived from toponyms: English terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:English twice-borrowed terms: English terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from English.
• Category:English univerbations: English terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:English terms with unknown etymologies: English terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.