Category:Icelandic terms by etymology
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Icelandic terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Icelandic back-formations: Icelandic terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Icelandic blends: Icelandic terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Icelandic borrowed terms: Icelandic terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms 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 terms: Icelandic terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Icelandic deverbals: Icelandic terms derived from a verb.
- 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 elongated forms: Icelandic terms where one or more letters or sounds is repeated for emphasis or effect.
- Category:Icelandic eponyms: Icelandic terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Icelandic genericized trademarks: Icelandic 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:Icelandic inherited terms: Icelandic terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Icelandic neologisms: Icelandic terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Icelandic nonce terms: Icelandic terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
- Category:Icelandic onomatopoeias: Icelandic terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Icelandic partial calques: Icelandic partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Icelandic terms by prefix: Icelandic terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Icelandic rebracketings: Icelandic terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Icelandic retronyms: Icelandic terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
- Category:Icelandic semantic loans: Icelandic semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Icelandic terms by suffix: Icelandic terms 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 univerbations: Icelandic terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Icelandic terms with unknown etymologies: Icelandic terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
B
- Icelandic back-formations (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic blends (0 c, 7 e)
C
D
- Icelandic deverbals (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic doublets (0 c, 23 e)
E
- Icelandic elongated forms (0 c, 3 e)
- Icelandic eponyms (0 c, 9 e)
G
- Icelandic genericized trademarks (0 c, 2 e)
I
N
- Icelandic neologisms (0 c, 16 e)
- Icelandic nonce terms (0 c, 1 e)
O
- Icelandic onomatopoeias (0 c, 17 e)
P
R
- Icelandic rebracketings (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic retronyms (0 c, 1 e)
S
T
- Icelandic terms borrowed back into Icelandic (0 c, 0 e)
U
- Icelandic univerbations (0 c, 1 e)
- Icelandic terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 10 e)