Lists of etymologies
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This is a list of etymological lists.
Contents
General
English word origins
- Non-loanwords
- * proto-Indo-European – Proto-Germanic – Anglo-Saxon *See Discussion*
- 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 – Malayalam – Maori – Nahuatl – Norwegian – Old Norse – Persian – Polish – Portuguese – Punjabi – Quechua – Russian – Sanskrit – Scots – Scottish Gaelic – Spanish – Swedish – Tamil – Turkic – Urdu – Yiddish
- Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
- *Greek – Latin
Spanish word origins
African – Americas – Arabic – Austronesian – Basque/Iberian – Celtic – Chinese – Etruscan – French – Germanic – Greek – Indo-Aryan – Iranian – Italic – Latin – Semitic – Turkic – uncertain – various: includes Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian, Egyptian, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, and Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian).
Toponyms or Names derived from places
Eponyms or 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
- Inventions 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'' named after people
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