Category:Estonian terms by etymology

Estonian terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Estonian back-formations: Estonian terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Estonian blends: Estonian terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Estonian borrowed terms: Estonian terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Estonian calques: Estonian calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Estonian compound terms: Estonian terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Estonian deverbals: Estonian terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Estonian doublets: Estonian 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:Estonian eponyms: Estonian terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Estonian inherited terms: Estonian terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Estonian terms by interfix: Estonian terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Estonian internationalisms: Estonian loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Estonian words derived through metathesis: Estonian words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Estonian neologisms: Estonian terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Estonian onomatopoeias: Estonian terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Estonian partial calques: Estonian partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Estonian terms by prefix: Estonian terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Estonian semantic loans: Estonian semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Estonian sound-symbolic terms: Estonian terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:Estonian terms by suffix: Estonian terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Estonian terms attributed to a specific source: Estonian terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Estonian terms coined ex nihilo: Estonian terms fabricated ex nihilo, i.e. made up entirely rather than being derived from an existing source.
• Category:Estonian terms derived from other languages: Estonian terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Estonian univerbations: Estonian terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Estonian terms with unknown etymologies: Estonian terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.