Category:Irish terms by etymology

Irish terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Irish aphetic forms: Irish words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Irish apocopic forms: Irish words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Irish back-formations: Irish terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Irish blends: Irish terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Irish borrowed terms: Irish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Irish calques: Irish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Irish compound terms: Irish terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Irish doublets: Irish 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:Irish ellipses: Irish terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Irish eponyms: Irish terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Irish ghost words: Irish 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:Irish inherited terms: Irish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Irish terms by interfix: Irish terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Irish onomatopoeias: Irish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Irish partial calques: Irish partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Irish terms by prefix: Irish terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Irish rebracketings: Irish terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Irish rebuses: Irish rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
• Category:Irish reduplications: Irish terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Irish retronyms: Irish terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Irish semantic loans: Irish semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Irish terms by suffix: Irish terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Irish terms derived from other languages: Irish terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Irish terms derived from the shape of letters: Irish terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
• Category:Irish univerbations: Irish terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Irish terms with unknown etymologies: Irish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.