Category:Afrikaans terms by etymology
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Afrikaans terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Afrikaans blends: Afrikaans terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Afrikaans borrowed terms: Afrikaans terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Afrikaans calques: Afrikaans calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Afrikaans compound terms: Afrikaans terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Afrikaans doublets: Afrikaans 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:Afrikaans eponyms: Afrikaans terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Afrikaans haplological words: Afrikaans words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
- Category:Afrikaans inherited terms: Afrikaans terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Afrikaans terms by interfix: Afrikaans terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Afrikaans metonyms: Afrikaans 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:Afrikaans onomatopoeias: Afrikaans terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Afrikaans terms by prefix: Afrikaans terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Afrikaans reduplications: Afrikaans terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Afrikaans semantic loans: Afrikaans semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Afrikaans terms by suffix: Afrikaans terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Afrikaans terms derived from other languages: Afrikaans terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Afrikaans univerbations: Afrikaans terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with unknown etymologies: Afrikaans terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
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- Afrikaans blends (0 c, 1 e)
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- Afrikaans doublets (0 c, 21 e)
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- Afrikaans eponyms (0 c, 4 e)
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- Afrikaans haplological words (0 c, 1 e)
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- Afrikaans metonyms (0 c, 1 e)
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- Afrikaans onomatopoeias (0 c, 4 e)
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- Afrikaans reduplications (0 c, 3 e)
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- Afrikaans terms borrowed back into Afrikaans (0 c, 1 e)
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- Afrikaans univerbations (0 c, 8 e)
- Afrikaans terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 1 e)