Category:Swahili terms by etymology
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Swahili terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Swahili back-formations: Swahili terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Swahili borrowed terms: Swahili terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Swahili calques: Swahili calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Swahili compound terms: Swahili terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Swahili coordinated pairs: Terms in Swahili consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
- Category:Swahili doublets: Swahili 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:Swahili ellipses: Swahili terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Swahili inherited terms: Swahili terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Swahili terms by interfix: Swahili terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Swahili neologisms: Swahili terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Swahili onomatopoeias: Swahili terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Swahili terms by prefix: Swahili terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Swahili reduplications: Swahili terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Swahili semantic loans: Swahili semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Swahili terms by suffix: Swahili terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Swahili terms derived from other languages: Swahili terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Swahili terms with unknown etymologies: Swahili terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
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- Swahili back-formations (0 c, 2 e)
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- Swahili compound terms (0 c, 173 e)
- Swahili coordinated pairs (0 c, 1 e)
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- Swahili doublets (0 c, 3 e)
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- Swahili ellipses (0 c, 1 e)
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- Swahili neologisms (0 c, 8 e)
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- Swahili onomatopoeias (0 c, 1 e)
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- Swahili reduplications (0 c, 28 e)
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- Swahili terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 6 e)