Lists of etymologies

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This is a list of etymological lists.

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

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