Category:Vietnamese terms by etymology

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Vietnamese terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Vietnamese blends: Vietnamese terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Vietnamese borrowed terms: Vietnamese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Vietnamese calques: Vietnamese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Vietnamese compound terms: Vietnamese terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Vietnamese doublets: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese eponyms: Vietnamese terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Vietnamese genericized trademarks: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese inherited terms: Vietnamese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Vietnamese metonyms: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese neologisms: Vietnamese terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Vietnamese onomatopoeias: Vietnamese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Vietnamese terms by prefix: Vietnamese terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Vietnamese rebracketings: Vietnamese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Vietnamese reduplications: Vietnamese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Vietnamese semantic loans: Vietnamese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Vietnamese spelling pronunciations: Vietnamese terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:Vietnamese terms by suffix: Vietnamese terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Vietnamese terms attributed to a specific source: Vietnamese terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Vietnamese terms derived from other languages: Vietnamese terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Vietnamese twice-borrowed terms: Vietnamese terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from Vietnamese.
• Category:Vietnamese terms with unknown etymologies: Vietnamese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.