Category:Tibetan terms by etymology

Tibetan terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Tibetan borrowed terms: Tibetan terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Tibetan calques: Tibetan calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Tibetan compound terms: Tibetan terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Tibetan doublets: Tibetan 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:Tibetan ellipses: Tibetan terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Tibetan inherited terms: Tibetan terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Tibetan onomatopoeias: Tibetan terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Tibetan semantic loans: Tibetan semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Tibetan terms by suffix: Tibetan terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Tibetan terms derived from other languages: Tibetan terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Tibetan terms with unknown etymologies: Tibetan terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.