Category:Old Tupi terms by etymology

Old Tupi terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Old Tupi apocopic forms: Old Tupi words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Old Tupi back-formations: Old Tupi terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Old Tupi borrowed terms: Old Tupi terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Old Tupi calques: Old Tupi calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Old Tupi compound terms: Old Tupi terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Old Tupi doublets: Old Tupi 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 Tupi ellipses: Old Tupi terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Old Tupi eponyms: Old Tupi terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Old Tupi inherited terms: Old Tupi terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Old Tupi terms by interfix: Old Tupi terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Old Tupi words derived through metathesis: Old Tupi words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Old Tupi onomatopoeias: Old Tupi terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Old Tupi piecewise doublets: Old Tupi terms that are piecewise doublets.
• Category:Old Tupi terms by prefix: Old Tupi terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Old Tupi reconstructed terms: Old Tupi terms that are not directly attested, but have been reconstructed through other evidence.
• Category:Old Tupi reduplications: Old Tupi terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Old Tupi semantic loans: Old Tupi semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Old Tupi terms by suffix: Old Tupi terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Old Tupi terms attributed to a specific source: Old Tupi terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Old Tupi terms derived from other languages: Old Tupi terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Old Tupi terms with unknown etymologies: Old Tupi terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.