Category:French terms by etymology

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French terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:French aphetic forms: French words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• 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 back-formations: French words formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:French blends: French words formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:French borrowed terms: French terms that are loanwords, i.e. words that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:French calques: French terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:French words by circumfix: French words categorized by their circumfixes.
• Category:French clippings: French words that were formed from another word by removing part of it, but without changing the part of speech.
• Category:French compound words: French words composed of two or more stems.
• Category:French coordinated pairs: French coordinated pairs.
• Category:French deverbals: French terms derived from a verb.
• Category:French doublets: French 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:French ellipses: French terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:French eponyms: French terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:French genericized trademarks: French 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:French haplological forms: French words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:French homophonic translations: French terms that were borrowed by matching the etymon phonetically, without regard for the sense; compare phono-semantic matching and Hobson-Jobson.
• Category:French inherited terms: French terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:French words by interfix: French words categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:French metonyms: French 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:French neologisms: French terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:French onomatopoeias: French words that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:French words by prefix: French words categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:French pseudo-anglicisms: French terms that appear to be English, but are not used or have a different meaning in English itself.
• Category:French rebracketings: French terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:French reduplications: French terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:French semantic loans: French terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:French words by suffix: French words categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:French syncopic forms: French words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:French terms attributed to a specific source: French terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:French terms by PIE root: French terms categorized by the Proto-Indo-European root they originate from.
• Category:French terms derived from other languages: French terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:French twice-borrowed terms: French terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from French.
• Category:French univerbations: French terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:French terms with unknown etymologies: French terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.