Category:Cebuano terms by etymology

Cebuano terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Cebuano aphetic forms: Cebuano words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Cebuano apocopic forms: Cebuano words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Cebuano back-formations: Cebuano terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Cebuano blends: Cebuano terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Cebuano borrowed terms: Cebuano terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Cebuano calques: Cebuano calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Cebuano terms by circumfix: Cebuano terms categorized by their circumfixes.
• Category:Cebuano compound terms: Cebuano terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Cebuano coordinated pairs: Terms in Cebuano consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Cebuano doublets: Cebuano 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:Cebuano ellipses: Cebuano terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Cebuano elongated forms: Cebuano terms where one or more letters or sounds is repeated for emphasis or effect.
• Category:Cebuano eponyms: Cebuano terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Cebuano terms with origins in folklore: Cebuano terms that have an etymology rooted in folklore.
• Category:Cebuano genericized trademarks: Cebuano 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:Cebuano haplological words: Cebuano words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:Cebuano homophonic translations: Cebuano terms that were borrowed by matching the etymon phonetically, without regard for the sense; compare phono-semantic matching and Hobson-Jobson.
• Category:Cebuano terms by infix: Cebuano terms categorized by their infixes.
• Category:Cebuano inherited terms: Cebuano terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Cebuano terms by interfix: Cebuano terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Cebuano words derived through metathesis: Cebuano words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Cebuano metonyms: Cebuano 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:Cebuano neologisms: Cebuano terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Cebuano onomatopoeias: Cebuano terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Cebuano partial calques: Cebuano partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Cebuano terms by prefix: Cebuano terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Cebuano rebuses: Cebuano rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
• Category:Cebuano reduplications: Cebuano terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Cebuano semantic loans: Cebuano semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Cebuano terms by suffix: Cebuano terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Cebuano syncopic forms: Cebuano words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Cebuano terms attributed to a specific source: Cebuano terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Cebuano terms derived from other languages: Cebuano terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Cebuano terms derived from toponyms: Cebuano terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Cebuano univerbations: Cebuano terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Cebuano terms with unknown etymologies: Cebuano terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.