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 Toponymy or placename etymology 4.1 Toponyms or Names derived from places 5 Eponyms (Names derived from people)

General

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

English word origins

See also: Lists of English words of international origin

• 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

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: 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).

Toponymy or placename etymology

Main article: Toponyms

• 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 words derived from toponyms
  • Chemical elements named after places
  • Maghreb toponymy

Eponyms (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
• 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
• Universities named after people