Lists of etymologies

Lists of etymologies

This is a list of etymological lists.

General

* List of company name etymologies
* List of computer term etymologies
* List of band 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 AboriginalAfricanAfrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — ChineseCzechDutchEtruscanFrenchGermanGreekHawaiianHebrewHindiHungarianIrishItalianJapaneseKorean — Latin — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — NorwegianOld NorsePersianPolishPortuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — RussianSanskritScotsScottish GaelicSpanishSwedishTamilTurkicUrduYiddish
* Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
**GreekLatin

See: Medical terminology

panish word origins

African
Americas
Arabic —
Austronesian
Basque/Iberian
Celtic
Chinese
Etruscan
French
GermanicGreek
Indo-Aryan
Iranian
ItalicLatin
Semitic
Turkic
uncertain
various -

Toponymy or placename etymology

:"Main article": Toponyms
* List of country name etymologies
** British — UK counties — German — India — Irish — * Romanian counties
** List of etymologies of country subdivision names
* List of river name etymologies

Toponyms or Names derived from places

* List of words derived from toponyms
** Chemical elements named after places
** Maghreb toponymy

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
*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
* Universities and colleges named after people


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