Category:Malay terms by etymology

Malay terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Malay back-formations: Malay terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Malay blends: Malay terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Malay borrowed terms: Malay terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Malay calques: Malay calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Malay terms by circumfix: Malay terms categorized by their circumfixes.
• Category:Malay compound terms: Malay terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Malay coordinated pairs: Terms in Malay consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Malay doublets: Malay 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:Malay ellipses: Malay terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Malay eponyms: Malay terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Malay haplological words: Malay words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:Malay terms by infix: Malay terms categorized by their infixes.
• Category:Malay inherited terms: Malay terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Malay terms by interfix: Malay terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Malay internationalisms: Malay loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Malay words derived through metathesis: Malay words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Malay metonyms: Malay 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:Malay neologisms: Malay terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Malay onomatopoeias: Malay terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Malay partial calques: Malay partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Malay terms by prefix: Malay terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Malay rebracketings: Malay terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Malay rebuses: Malay rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
• Category:Malay reduplications: Malay terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Malay Sanskritic formations: Malay terms coined from tatsama words and/or affixes.
• Category:Malay semantic loans: Malay semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Malay terms by suffix: Malay terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Malay terms attributed to a specific source: Malay terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Malay terms derived from other languages: Malay terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Malay terms with unknown etymologies: Malay terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.