Lists of etymologies
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This is a list of etymological lists.
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[edit] General
[edit] English word origins
- Non-loanwords
- proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon
- How words have been loaned from various languages to (many) other languages:
- Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese — Korean — Latin — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — Norwegian — Old Norse — Persian — Polish — Portuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — Russian — Sanskrit — Scots — Scottish Gaelic — Spanish — Swedish — Tamil — Turkic — Urdu — Yiddish
- Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
See: Medical terminology
[edit] Spanish word origins
African — Americas — Arabic — Austronesian — Basque/Iberian — Celtic — Chinese — Etruscan — French — Germanic — Greek — Indo-Aryan — Iranian — Italic — Latin — Semitic — Turkic — uncertain — various -
[edit] Toponymy or placename etymology
- Main article: Toponyms
[edit] Toponyms or Names derived from places
[edit] Eponyms (Names derived from people)
- Main article: Eponyms
- Astronomical objects named after people
- Cartoon characters named after people
- Chemical elements named after people
- Diseases named after people
- Companies named after people
- Countries named after people
- Foods named after people
- Human anatomical parts named after people
- Inventions named after people
- Minerals named after people
- Places and political entities named after people
- Prizes named after people
- Scientific constants named after people
- Scientific laws named after people
- Scientific phenomena named after people
- Scientific units named after people
- Universities named after people