Module:etymology/templates/documentation

This module generates content for several etymology templates. They include:

The basic templates for inheritance, borrowing, other derivation, and cognates, including:

• {{cognate}}/{{cog}}, {{noncognate}}/{{ncog}}
• {{derived}}/{{der}}
• {{undefined derivation}}/{{uder}}
• {{inherited}}/{{inh}}
• {{borrowed}}/{{bor}}

Also, the following "specialized borrowing" templates (not including {{bor}}/{{borrowed}} itself), which are similar to {{bor}} but display text preceding the source language(s) and term(s):

• {{learned borrowing}}/{{lbor}}
• {{semi-learned borrowing}}/{{slbor}}
• {{orthographic borrowing}}/{{obor}}
• {{unadapted borrowing}}/{{ubor}}
• {{adapted borrowing}}/{{abor}}
• {{calque}}/{{cal}}/{{clq}}
• {{partial calque}}/{{pcal}}/{{pclq}}
• {{semantic loan}}/{{sl}}
• {{phono-semantic matching}}/{{psm}}
• {{transliteration}}/{{translit}}
• {{bor+}}

Miscellaneous etymology templates that take a single term parameter (which may have comma-separated subterms):

• {{abbrev}}
• {{acronym}}
• {{back-formation}}
• {{clipping}}
• {{ellipsis}}
• {{initialism}}
• {{rebracketing}}
• {{reduplication}}
• {{spoonerism}}
• ...

Miscellaneous etymology templates that take no term parameter:

• {{onomatopoeic}}
• {{uncertain}}
• {{unknown}}
• ...

Miscellaneous etymology templates that take multiple term parameters in separate numbered arguments:

• {{doublet}}/{{dbt}}
• {{piecewise doublet}}/{{pw dbt}}

The following templates are found in their own module:

• {{descendant}}/{{desc}}, {{descendants tree}}/{{desctree}}: See Module:etymology/templates/descendant.

The following deprecated template is supported to make historical revisions easier to read:

• {{etyl}}