Lists of etymologies
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This is a list of etymological lists.
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General
- List of company name etymologies
- List of computer term etymologies
- List of band name etymologies
- List of chemical element name etymologies
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English word origins
- 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
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French word origins
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Spanish word origins
African — Americas — Arabic — Austronesian — Basque/Iberian — Celtic — Chinese — Etruscan — French — Germanic — Greek — Indo-Aryan — Iranian — Italic — Latin — Semitic — Turkic — uncertain — various -
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Toponymy or placename etymology
- Main article: Toponyms
- List of country name etymologies
- 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
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Toponyms or Names derived from places
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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
- List of eponymous adjectives in English
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