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 administrative divisions
• 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

External links

• List of etymologies of words

1. Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
2. List of proposed etymologies of OK
3. List of chemical element name etymologies
4. Etymology
5. List of lists of lists
6. List of continent name etymologies
7. Lists of North American place name etymologies
8. List of computer term etymologies
9. List of river name etymologies
10. List of inventions named after people
11. List of musician and band name etymologies
12. List of Canada city name etymologies
13. List of Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies
14. List of Arabic star names
15. List of country-name etymologies
16. List of U.S. county name etymologies (A–D)
17. List of companies named after people
18. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English
19. List of calques
20. Eponym