Category:Yoruba terms by etymology
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Yoruba terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Yoruba aphetic forms: Yoruba words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
- Category:Yoruba blends: Yoruba terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Yoruba borrowed terms: Yoruba terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Yoruba calques: Yoruba calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Yoruba compound terms: Yoruba terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Yoruba doublets: Yoruba 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:Yoruba eponyms: Yoruba terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Yoruba genericized trademarks: Yoruba 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:Yoruba inherited terms: Yoruba terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Yoruba terms by interfix: Yoruba terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Yoruba words derived through metathesis: Yoruba words that were created through metathesis from another word.
- Category:Yoruba neologisms: Yoruba terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Yoruba onomatopoeias: Yoruba terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Yoruba terms by prefix: Yoruba terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Yoruba reduplications: Yoruba terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Yoruba terms derived from other languages: Yoruba terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Yoruba terms with unknown etymologies: Yoruba terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
A
- Yoruba aphetic forms (0 c, 1 e)
B
- Yoruba blends (0 c, 102 e)
C
- Yoruba compound terms (0 c, 1488 e)
D
- Yoruba doublets (0 c, 49 e)
E
- Yoruba eponyms (0 c, 5 e)
G
- Yoruba genericized trademarks (0 c, 5 e)
I
M
- Yoruba words derived through metathesis (0 c, 2 e)
N
- Yoruba neologisms (0 c, 8 e)
O
- Yoruba onomatopoeias (0 c, 29 e)
P
R
- Yoruba reduplications (0 c, 77 e)
T
- Yoruba terms borrowed back into Yoruba (0 c, 1 e)
U
- Yoruba terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 2 e)