Category:Galician terms by etymology

Galician terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Galician apocopic forms: Galician words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Galician back-formations: Galician terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Galician blends: Galician terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Galician borrowed terms: Galician terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Galician calques: Galician calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Galician compound terms: Galician terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Galician deverbals: Galician terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Galician doublets: Galician 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:Galician eponyms: Galician terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Galician inherited terms: Galician terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Galician terms by interfix: Galician terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Galician metonyms: Galician 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:Galician neologisms: Galician terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Galician onomatopoeias: Galician terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Galician terms by prefix: Galician terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Galician retronyms: Galician terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Galician terms by suffix: Galician terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Galician syncopic forms: Galician words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Galician terms derived from other languages: Galician terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Galician terms with unknown etymologies: Galician terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.