Category:Old Irish terms by etymology

Old Irish terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Old Irish aphetic forms: Old Irish words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Old Irish apocopic forms: Old Irish words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Old Irish borrowed terms: Old Irish terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Old Irish calques: Old Irish calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Old Irish compound terms: Old Irish terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Old Irish doublets: Old 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:Old Irish inherited terms: Old Irish terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Old Irish terms by interfix: Old Irish terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Old Irish metonyms: Old Irish 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:Old Irish onomatopoeias: Old Irish terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Old Irish terms by prefix: Old Irish terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Old Irish semantic loans: Old Irish semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Old Irish terms by suffix: Old Irish terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Old Irish terms derived from other languages: Old Irish terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Old Irish univerbations: Old Irish terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Old Irish terms with unknown etymologies: Old Irish terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.