Category:German terms by etymology

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German terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:German apocopic forms: German words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:German back-formations: German terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:German blends: German terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:German borrowed terms: German terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:German calques: German calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:German terms by circumfix: German terms categorized by their circumfixes.
• Category:German compound terms: German terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:German coordinated pairs: Terms in German consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:German deverbals: German terms derived from a verb.
• Category:German doublets: German 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:German ellipses: German terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:German eponyms: German terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:German genericized trademarks: German 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:German ghost words: German 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:German haplological words: German words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:German inherited terms: German terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:German terms by interfix: German terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:German internationalisms: German loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:German metonyms: German 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:German neologisms: German terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:German nonce terms: German terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:German numeronyms: German terms that serve as number-based names.
• Category:German onomatopoeias: German terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:German partial calques: German partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:German terms by prefix: German terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:German rebracketings: German terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:German reduplications: German terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:German retronyms: German terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:German semantic loans: German semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:German spelling pronunciations: German terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:German terms by suffix: German terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:German terms attributed to a specific source: German terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:German terms derived from other languages: German terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:German terms derived from the shape of letters: German terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
• Category:German terms derived from toponyms: German terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:German twice-borrowed terms: German terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from German.
• Category:German univerbations: German terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:German terms with unknown etymologies: German terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.