Category:Japanese terms by etymology

Japanese terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Japanese aphetic forms: Japanese words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
• Category:Japanese back-formations: Japanese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Japanese blends: Japanese terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Japanese borrowed terms: Japanese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Japanese calques: Japanese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Japanese compound terms: Japanese terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Japanese coordinated pairs: Terms in Japanese consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
• Category:Japanese doublets: Japanese 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:Japanese ellipses: Japanese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Japanese elongated forms: Japanese terms where one or more letters or sounds is repeated for emphasis or effect.
• Category:Japanese eponyms: Japanese terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Japanese genericized trademarks: Japanese 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:Japanese haplological words: Japanese words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:Japanese terms by infix: Japanese terms categorized by their infixes.
• Category:Japanese inherited terms: Japanese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Japanese internationalisms: Japanese loanwords which also exist in many other languages with the same or similar etymology.
• Category:Japanese metonyms: Japanese 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:Japanese neologisms: Japanese terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Japanese nonce terms: Japanese terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:Japanese onomatopoeias: Japanese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Japanese partial calques: Japanese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Japanese piecewise doublets: Japanese terms that are piecewise doublets.
• Category:Japanese terms by prefix: Japanese terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Japanese rebracketings: Japanese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Japanese rebuses: Japanese rebuses – terms that are partially or completely represented by images, symbols or numbers, often as a form of wordplay.
• Category:Japanese reduplications: Japanese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Japanese retronyms: Japanese terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Japanese roots: Basic morphemes from which Japanese words are formed.
• Category:Japanese semantic loans: Japanese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Japanese words that have undergone semantic shift: Japanese words that show senses explained by semantic shift.
• Category:Japanese spelling pronunciations: Japanese terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
• Category:Japanese terms by suffix: Japanese terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Japanese terms attributed to a specific source: Japanese terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Japanese terms derived from other languages: Japanese terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Japanese terms derived from the shape of letters: Japanese terms derived from the shape of letters. This can include terms derived from the shape of any letter in any alphabet.
• Category:Japanese terms derived from toponyms: Japanese terms derived from names of real or fictitious places.
• Category:Japanese terms making reference to character shapes: Japanese terms making reference to character shapes.
• Category:Japanese terms with unknown etymologies: Japanese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.