Lists of etymologies

This is a list of etymological lists.

Table of contents

1 General 2 Word origins 3 Placename etymology or Toponymy 3.1 Toponyms or Names derived from places 4 Eponyms or Names derived from people

General

• List of company name etymologies
• List of computer term etymologies
• German family name etymology

Word origins

• Lists of English words of international origin
  • Australian Aboriginal – African – Afrikaans – Arabic – Chinese – Czech – Dutch – Etruscan – French – German – Hawaiian – Hebrew – Hindi – Hungarian – Indian – Irish – Italian – Japanese – Latin – Latin prefix – Maori – Native American – Norwegian – Persian – Polish – Portuguese – Russian – Sanskrit – Scots – Scots Gaelic – Spanish – Swedish – Tamil – Turkish – Yiddish

Placename etymology or Toponymy

• List of country name etymologies
  • List of subnational name etymologies
• List of river name etymologies

Toponyms or Names derived from places

• List of toponyms
  • Chemical elements named after places

Eponyms or Names derived from people

Main article: List of eponyms sorted alphabetically

• Astronomical objects named after people
• Cartoon characters named after people
• Chemical elements named after people
• Diseases named after people
• Companies named after people
• Foods named after people
• Human anatomical parts named after people
• Inventions named after people
• Places and political entities named after people
• Prizes named after people
• Scientific constants named after people
• Scientific laws named after people
• Scientific phenomena named after people
• Scientific units named after people