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 — Yiddish
• 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
• 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
• Colleges and universities named after people
• List of eponymous adjectives in English

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