Lists of etymologies
Template:Short description This is a list of etymological lists.
GeneralEdit
- List of computer term etymologies
- List of band name etymologies
- List of chemical element name etymologies
English word originsEdit
- Non-loanwords
- 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 — Malay — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — Norwegian — Old Norse — Persian — Polish — Portuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — Russian — Sanskrit — Scots — Scottish Gaelic — Spanish — Swedish — Tamil — Turkic — Ukrainian —Urdu — Yiddish
- Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
See: Medical terminology
Spanish word originsEdit
African — Americas — Arabic — Austronesian — Basque/Iberian — Celtic — Chinese — Etruscan — French — Germanic — Greek — Indo-Aryan — Iranian — Italic — Latin — Semitic — Turkic — uncertain — various
Romanian word originsEdit
Toponymy or placename etymologyEdit
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- List of country-name etymologies
- British — UK counties — German — India — Irish — Romanian counties — Bulgarian provinces — Brazilian states — U.S. states — Filipino provinces
- List of etymologies of administrative divisions
- List of national capital city name etymologies
- List of river name etymologies
- List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin
- List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin
- List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands
- Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong
- Lists of North American place name etymologies
- List of place names of French origin in the United States
- List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States
- List of place names in the United States of Native American origin
- List of Chinook Jargon placenames
- Sri Lankan place name etymology
Toponyms or names derived from placesEdit
Eponyms (names derived from people)Edit
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- Astronomical objects named after people
- Cartoon characters named after people
- Chemical elements named after people
- Colleges and universities named after people
- Companies named after people
- Countries named after people
- Diseases named after people
- English adjectives named after people
- Foods named after people
- Human anatomical parts named after people
- Ideologies 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
- Sports terms named after people