Category:Thai terms by etymology

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Thai terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Thai aphetic forms: Thai words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Thai back-formations: Thai words formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Thai blends: Thai words formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Thai borrowed terms: Thai terms that are loanwords, i.e. words that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Thai calques: Thai calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Thai compound words: Thai words composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Thai doublets: Thai 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:Thai ellipses: Thai terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Thai eponyms: Thai terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Thai words by infix: Thai words categorized by their infixes.
• Category:Thai inherited terms: Thai terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Thai metonyms: Thai 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:Thai neologisms: Thai terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Thai onomatopoeias: Thai words that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Thai words by prefix: Thai words categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Thai reduplications: Thai terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Thai spoonerisms: Thai terms in which the initial sounds of component parts have been exchanged, as in "crook and nanny" for "nook and cranny".
• Category:Thai words by suffix: Thai words categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Thai terms attributed to a specific source: Thai terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Thai terms derived from other languages: Thai terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Thai twice-borrowed terms: Thai terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from Thai.
• Category:Thai terms with unknown etymologies: Thai terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.