Category:Finnish terms by etymology

Finnish terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Finnish apocopic forms: Finnish words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Finnish back-formations: Finnish terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Finnish blends: Finnish terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Finnish borrowed terms: Finnish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Finnish calques: Finnish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Finnish compound terms: Finnish terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Finnish coordinated pairs: Terms in Finnish consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Finnish doublets: Finnish 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:Finnish ellipses: Finnish terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Finnish eponyms: Finnish terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Finnish genericized trademarks: Finnish terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
• Category:Finnish ghost words: Finnish terms that were originally erroneous or fictitious, published in a reference work as if they were genuine as a result of typographical error, misreading, or misinterpretation, or as fictitious entries, jokes, or hoaxes.
• Category:Finnish haplological words: Finnish words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:Finnish inherited terms: Finnish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Finnish terms by interfix: Finnish terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Finnish internationalisms: Finnish loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Finnish words derived through metathesis: Finnish words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Finnish metonyms: Finnish 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:Finnish neologisms: Finnish terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Finnish onomatopoeias: Finnish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Finnish partial calques: Finnish partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Finnish terms by prefix: Finnish terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Finnish reduplications: Finnish terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Finnish retronyms: Finnish terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Finnish semantic loans: Finnish semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Finnish sound-symbolic terms: Finnish terms that use sound symbolism to express ideas but which are not necessarily strictly speaking onomatopoeic.
• Category:Finnish spelling pronunciations: Finnish terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:Finnish terms by suffix: Finnish terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Finnish syncopic forms: Finnish words that underwent syncope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.
• Category:Finnish terms attributed to a specific source: Finnish terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Finnish terms coined ex nihilo: Finnish terms fabricated ex nihilo, i.e. made up entirely rather than being derived from an existing source.
• Category:Finnish terms derived from other languages: Finnish terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Finnish univerbations: Finnish terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Finnish terms with unknown etymologies: Finnish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.