Category:Old French terms by etymology

Old French terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Old French apocopic forms: Old French words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Old French back-formations: Old French terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Old French blends: Old French terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Old French borrowed terms: Old French terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Old French calques: Old French calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Old French compound terms: Old French terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Old French deverbals: Old French terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Old French doublets: Old French 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:Old French ellipses: Old French terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Old French inherited terms: Old French terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Old French terms by interfix: Old French terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Old French words derived through metathesis: Old French words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Old French nonce terms: Old French terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:Old French onomatopoeias: Old French terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Old French partial calques: Old French partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Old French terms by prefix: Old French terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Old French semantic loans: Old French semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Old French terms by suffix: Old French terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Old French terms derived from other languages: Old French terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Old French univerbations: Old French terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Old French terms with unknown etymologies: Old French terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.