Category:Macanese terms by etymology
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Macanese terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Macanese blends: Macanese terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Macanese borrowed terms: Macanese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Macanese calques: Macanese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Macanese compound terms: Macanese terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Macanese doublets: Macanese 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:Macanese ellipses: Macanese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Macanese inherited terms: Macanese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Macanese words derived through metathesis: Macanese words that were created through metathesis from another word.
- Category:Macanese onomatopoeias: Macanese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Macanese partial calques: Macanese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
- Category:Macanese rebracketings: Macanese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Macanese reduplications: Macanese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Macanese semantic loans: Macanese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Macanese terms by suffix: Macanese terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Macanese terms derived from other languages: Macanese terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Macanese terms derived from toponyms: Macanese terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
- Category:Macanese univerbations: Macanese terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Macanese terms with unknown etymologies: Macanese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
B
- Macanese blends (0 c, 2 e)
C
- Macanese compound terms (0 c, 29 e)
D
- Macanese doublets (0 c, 11 e)
E
- Macanese ellipses (0 c, 3 e)
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M
- Macanese words derived through metathesis (0 c, 1 e)
O
- Macanese onomatopoeias (0 c, 2 e)
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R
- Macanese rebracketings (0 c, 1 e)
- Macanese reduplications (0 c, 8 e)
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T
- Macanese terms derived from toponyms (0 c, 1 e)
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- Macanese univerbations (0 c, 16 e)
- Macanese terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 7 e)