Category:Swedish terms by etymology

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Swedish terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Swedish apocopic forms: Swedish words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Swedish back-formations: Swedish terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Swedish blends: Swedish terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Swedish borrowed terms: Swedish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Swedish calques: Swedish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Swedish compound terms: Swedish terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Swedish deverbals: Swedish terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Swedish doublets: Swedish 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:Swedish ellipses: Swedish terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Swedish eponyms: Swedish terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Swedish genericized trademarks: Swedish 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:Swedish inherited terms: Swedish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Swedish terms by interfix: Swedish terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Swedish internationalisms: Swedish loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Swedish metonyms: Swedish 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:Swedish neologisms: Swedish terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Swedish nonce terms: Swedish terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:Swedish onomatopoeias: Swedish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Swedish partial calques: Swedish partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Swedish terms by prefix: Swedish terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Swedish rebracketings: Swedish terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Swedish reduplications: Swedish terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Swedish retronyms: Swedish terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Swedish semantic loans: Swedish semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Swedish sound-symbolic terms: Swedish terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:Swedish spelled-out initialisms: Swedish initialisms in which the letter names are spelled out.
• Category:Swedish terms by suffix: Swedish terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Swedish syncopic forms: Swedish words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Swedish terms attributed to a specific source: Swedish terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Swedish terms derived from area codes: Swedish terms derived from area codes.
• Category:Swedish terms derived from other languages: Swedish terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Swedish twice-borrowed terms: Swedish terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from Swedish.
• Category:Swedish terms with unknown etymologies: Swedish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.