Category:Finnish terms by etymology
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Finnish terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Finnish apocopic forms: Finnish words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
- Category:Finnish back-formations: Finnish terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Finnish blends: Finnish terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Finnish borrowed terms: Finnish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Finnish calques: Finnish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Finnish compound terms: Finnish terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Finnish coordinated pairs: Terms in Finnish consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
- Category:Finnish doublets: Finnish terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
- Category:Finnish ellipses: Finnish terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Finnish eponyms: Finnish terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Finnish genericized trademarks: Finnish terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
- Category:Finnish ghost words: Finnish terms that were originally erroneous or fictitious, published in a reference work as if they were genuine as a result of typographical error, misreading, or misinterpretation, or as fictitious entries, jokes, or hoaxes.
- Category:Finnish haplological words: Finnish words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
- Category:Finnish inherited terms: Finnish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Finnish terms by interfix: Finnish terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Finnish internationalisms: Finnish loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
- Category:Finnish words derived through metathesis: Finnish words that were created through metathesis from another word.
- Category:Finnish metonyms: Finnish terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
- Category:Finnish neologisms: Finnish terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Finnish onomatopoeias: Finnish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Finnish partial calques: Finnish partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Finnish terms by prefix: Finnish terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Finnish reduplications: Finnish terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Finnish retronyms: Finnish terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
- Category:Finnish semantic loans: Finnish semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Finnish sound-symbolic terms: Finnish terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
- Category:Finnish spelling pronunciations: Finnish terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
- Category:Finnish terms by suffix: Finnish terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Finnish syncopic forms: Finnish words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
- Category:Finnish terms attributed to a specific source: Finnish terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:Finnish terms derived from other languages: Finnish terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Finnish univerbations: Finnish terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Finnish terms with unknown etymologies: Finnish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 36 subcategories, out of 36 total.
A
- Finnish apocopic forms (0 c, 6 e)
B
- Finnish back-formations (0 c, 181 e)
- Finnish blends (0 c, 168 e)
C
- Finnish coordinated pairs (0 c, 1 e)
D
- Finnish doublets (0 c, 176 e)
E
- Finnish ellipses (0 c, 255 e)
- Finnish eponyms (0 c, 73 e)
G
- Finnish genericized trademarks (0 c, 12 e)
- Finnish ghost words (0 c, 1 e)
H
- Finnish haplological words (0 c, 1 e)
I
- Finnish internationalisms (0 c, 8082 e)
M
- Finnish words derived through metathesis (0 c, 43 e)
- Finnish metonyms (0 c, 4 e)
N
- Finnish neologisms (0 c, 20 e)
O
- Finnish onomatopoeias (0 c, 432 e)
P
R
- Finnish reduplications (0 c, 4 e)
- Finnish retronyms (0 c, 13 e)
S
- Finnish sound-symbolic terms (0 c, 462 e)
- Finnish spelling pronunciations (0 c, 1 e)
- Finnish syncopic forms (0 c, 3 e)
T
- Finnish terms borrowed back into Finnish (0 c, 7 e)
U
- Finnish univerbations (0 c, 28 e)
- Finnish terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 618 e)