Category:Icelandic terms by etymology
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Icelandic terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Icelandic back-formations: Icelandic words formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Icelandic blends: Icelandic words formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Icelandic borrowed terms: Icelandic terms that are loanwords, i.e. words that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Icelandic calques: Icelandic calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Icelandic compound words: Icelandic words composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Icelandic doublets: Icelandic 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:Icelandic eponyms: Icelandic terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Icelandic inherited terms: Icelandic terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Icelandic words by interfix: Icelandic words categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Icelandic neologisms: Icelandic terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Icelandic onomatopoeias: Icelandic words that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Icelandic words by prefix: Icelandic words categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Icelandic semantic loans: Icelandic terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Icelandic words by suffix: Icelandic words categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Icelandic terms attributed to a specific source: Icelandic terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:Icelandic terms derived from other languages: Icelandic terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Icelandic terms derived from the shape of letters: Icelandic terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
- Category:Icelandic terms with unknown etymologies: Icelandic terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
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- Icelandic back-formations (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic blends (0 c, 6 e)
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- Icelandic compound words (0 c, 2539 e)
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- Icelandic doublets (0 c, 6 e)
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- Icelandic eponyms (0 c, 9 e)
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- Icelandic neologisms (0 c, 13 e)
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- Icelandic onomatopoeias (0 c, 10 e)
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- Icelandic terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 3 e)