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Lists of etymologies

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This is a list of etymological lists.

Contents

General

  • List of company name etymologies
  • List of computer term etymologies
  • List of band name etymologies
  • List of chemical element name etymologies
  • 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 — 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
  • Greek — Latin
  • See: Medical terminology

    Spanish word origins

    African — Americas — Arabic — Austronesian — Basque/Iberian — Celtic — Chinese — Etruscan — French — Germanic — Greek — Indo-Aryan — Iranian — Italic — Latin — Semitic — Turkic — uncertain — various

    Romanian word origins

    Dacian

    Toponymy or placename etymology

  • 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 country subdivision names
  • List of national capital city name etymologies
  • List of river name etymologies
  • Lists of North American place name etymologies
  • Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong
  • List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
  • List of U.S. place names of French origin
  • List of Chinook Jargon placenames
  • Sri Lankan place name etymology
  • Toponyms or names derived from places

  • List of words derived from toponyms
  • Chemical elements named after places
  • List of inventions named after places
  • Maghreb toponymy
  • Eponyms (names derived from people)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Colleges and universities named after people
  • List of eponymous adjectives in English
  • References

    Lists of etymologies Wikipedia