Category:Vietnamese terms by etymology
Vietnamese terms categorized by their etymologies.
Category:Vietnamese blends: Vietnamese terms formed by combinations of other words.
Category:Vietnamese borrowed terms: Vietnamese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
Category:Vietnamese calques: Vietnamese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
Category:Vietnamese compound terms: Vietnamese terms composed of two or more stems.
Category:Vietnamese coordinated pairs: Terms in Vietnamese consisting of a pair of terms joined by a coordinating conjunction.
Category:Vietnamese doublets: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese ellipses: Vietnamese terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
Category:Vietnamese eponyms: Vietnamese terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
Category:Vietnamese genericized trademarks: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese inherited terms: Vietnamese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
Category:Vietnamese metonyms: Vietnamese 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:Vietnamese neologisms: Vietnamese terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
Category:Vietnamese onomatopoeias: Vietnamese terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
Category:Vietnamese partial calques: Vietnamese partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
Category:Vietnamese piecewise doublets: Vietnamese terms that are piecewise doublets.
Category:Vietnamese terms by prefix: Vietnamese terms categorized by their prefixes.
Category:Vietnamese rebracketings: Vietnamese terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
Category:Vietnamese reduplications: Vietnamese terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
Category:Vietnamese semantic loans: Vietnamese semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
Category:Vietnamese spelling pronunciations: Vietnamese terms whose pronunciation was historically or presently affected by their spelling.
Category:Vietnamese terms by suffix: Vietnamese terms categorized by their suffixes.
Category:Vietnamese terms attributed to a specific source: Vietnamese terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
Category:Vietnamese terms derived from other languages: Vietnamese terms that originate from other languages.
Category:Vietnamese terms with unknown etymologies: Vietnamese terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.