Category:Khmer terms by etymology

Khmer terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Khmer aphetic forms: Khmer words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Khmer borrowed terms: Khmer terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Khmer calques: Khmer calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Khmer compound terms: Khmer terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Khmer doublets: Khmer 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:Khmer eponyms: Khmer terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Khmer inherited terms: Khmer terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Khmer neologisms: Khmer terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Khmer onomatopoeias: Khmer terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Khmer reduplications: Khmer terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Khmer semantic loans: Khmer semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Khmer terms attributed to a specific source: Khmer terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Khmer terms derived from other languages: Khmer terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Khmer terms with unknown etymologies: Khmer terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.