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
* 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
* 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
* 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 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
* 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

Names derived from animals and animal eponyms

* List of fish named after animals
* List of places named after animals
* List of minor planets named after animals and plants
* List of wars named after animals

External links

List of etymologies of words

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