Category:Sanskrit terms by etymology

Sanskrit terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Sanskrit aphetic forms: Sanskrit words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Sanskrit back-formations: Sanskrit terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Sanskrit borrowed terms: Sanskrit terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Sanskrit calques: Sanskrit calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Sanskrit compound terms: Sanskrit terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Sanskrit doublets: Sanskrit 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:Sanskrit inherited terms: Sanskrit terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Sanskrit terms by interfix: Sanskrit terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Sanskrit words derived through metathesis: Sanskrit words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Sanskrit neologisms: Sanskrit terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Sanskrit onomatopoeias: Sanskrit terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Sanskrit terms by prefix: Sanskrit terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Sanskrit reconstructed terms: Sanskrit terms that are not directly attested, but have been reconstructed through other evidence.
• Category:Sanskrit reduplications: Sanskrit terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Sanskrit roots: Basic morphemes from which Sanskrit words are formed.
• Category:Sanskrit semantic loans: Sanskrit semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Sanskrit sound-symbolic terms: Sanskrit terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:Sanskrit terms by suffix: Sanskrit terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Sanskrit terms attributed to a specific source: Sanskrit terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Sanskrit terms by root: Sanskrit terms categorized by the root they originate from.
• Category:Sanskrit terms derived from other languages: Sanskrit terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Sanskrit univerbations: Sanskrit terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Sanskrit terms with unknown etymologies: Sanskrit terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
• Category:Sanskrit vrddhi derivatives: Sanskrit terms derived from a Proto-Indo-European root by the process of vṛddhi derivation.