Lists of etymologies

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This is a list of etymological lists.

Contents 1 General 2 English word origins 3 Spanish word origins 4 Placename etymology or Toponymy 4.1 Toponyms or Names derived from places 5 Eponyms or Names derived from people

General

• List of company name etymologies
• List of computer term etymologies
• List of band name etymologies

English word origins

• Non-loanwords
  • Indo-European – Old Norse
• 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 – Persian – Polish – Portuguese – Punjabi – Quechua – Russian – Sanskrit – Scots – Scottish Gaelic – Spanish – Swedish – Tamil – Turkish – 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).

Placename etymology or Toponymy

• List of country name etymologies
  • British — UK counties — German — India — Irish — * Romanian counties
  • List of subnational name etymologies
• List of river name etymologies

Toponyms or Names derived from places

• List of toponyms
  • Chemical elements named after places
  • Maghreb toponymy

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