General

• List of company name etymologies
• List of computer term etymologies
• List of band name etymologies
• List of chemical element name etymologies

English word origins

• Non-loanwords
  • proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon
• How words have been loaned from various languages to (many) other languages:
  • Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek
    English words of Greek origin
    The Greek language has contributed to the English vocabulary in three ways:#directly as an immediate donor,#indirectly through other intermediate language, as an original donor , and#modern coinages using Greek roots....
    
     — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese — Korean — Latin — Malay — Malayalam — Maori — Nahuatl — Norwegian — Old Norse — Persian — Polish — Portuguese — Punjabi — Quechua — Russian — Sanskrit — Scots — Scottish Gaelic — Spanish — Swedish — Tamil — Turkic — Ukrainian —Urdu — Yiddish
• Lists of foreign words with English derivatives
  • Greek — Latin

French word origins

• Arabic — Gaulish — Germanic

Spanish word origins

Toponymy

Toponymy

Toponymy is the scientific study of place names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos and ónoma . Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds...

 or placename etymology

Main article: Toponyms

• List of country name etymologies
  • British — UK counties
    Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom
    Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom is a list of the origins of the names of counties of the United Kingdom. For England and Wales it includes ancient and contemporary counties.-Background:...
    
     — German
    German placename etymology
    Placenames in the German language area can be classified by the language from which they originate, and by their age.- Suffixes :# -ach, . Examples: Echternach, Salzach....
    
     — India — Irish
    Place names in Irish
    The vast majority of placenames in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names; that is, adaptations of the Irish names to English phonology and spelling. However, some names come directly from the English language, and a handful come from Old Norse and Ulster Scots...
    
     — Romanian counties
    Etymological list of counties of Romania
    This is a list of the origins of the names of counties of Romania. Many of the etymologies are Romanian interpretations of Slavonic names , as the administration documents in the Middle Ages Romanian Principalities were written in this language.-Historical counties:-Sources:*This article is based...
    
     — Bulgarian provinces
    Etymological list of provinces of Bulgaria
    This is a list of the origins of the names of provinces of Bulgaria....
    
     — Brazilian States — U.S. States — Filipino Provinces
  • List of etymologies of country subdivision names
• List of national capital city name etymologies
• List of river name etymologies
• Lists of North American place name etymologies
• Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong
  Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong
  Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong...
  
  
• List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
• List of U.S. place names of French origin
• List of Chinook Jargon placenames

Toponyms or names derived from places

• List of words derived from toponyms
  • Chemical elements named after places
  • List of inventions named after places
  • Lists of foods and drinks named after people
  • Maghreb toponymy
    Maghreb toponymy
    The place names of the Maghreb come from a variety of origins, mostly Arabic and Berber, but including a few derived from Phoenician, Latin, and several other languages...
    
    

Eponyms (names derived from people)

Main article: Eponyms

• Astronomical objects named after people
  Astronomical objects named after people
  There are probably a few thousand astronomical objects named after people. These include the names of a few thousand asteroids and hundreds of comets. Also, many topological features on solar system bodies have been named after people, including many hundreds of craters on the Moon, Mars and...
  
  
• Cartoon characters named after people
• Chemical elements named after people
• Diseases named after people
• Companies named after people
• Countries named after people
• Foods named after people
• Human anatomical parts named after people
• Ideologies named after people
• Inventions named after people
• Minerals named after people
• Places and political entities named after people
• Prizes named after people
  Prizes named after people
  This is a list of prizes that are named after people.For other lists of eponyms see Lists of etymologies.* Ansari X Prize - Anousheh Ansari, Amir Ansari* Prince of Asturias Awards - Felipe, Prince of Asturias-A:...
  
  
• Scientific constants named after people
  Scientific constants named after people
  This is a list of physical and mathematical constants named after people.* Archimedes' constant — Archimedes* Avogadro's number — Amedeo Avogadro* Bohr magneton — Niels Bohr* Bohr radius — Niels Bohr* Boltzmann constant — Ludwig Boltzmann...
  
  
• Scientific laws named after people
  Scientific laws named after people
  This is a list of scientific laws named after people . For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.-See also:* Eponym* Fields of science...
  
  
• Scientific phenomena named after people
  Scientific phenomena named after people
  This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people . For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.-A:* Abderhalden–Fauser reaction – Emil Abderhalden* Abney effect, Abney's law of additivity – William de Wiveleslie Abney...
  
  
• Scientific units named after people
  Scientific units named after people
  This is a list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms see eponym.Note that by convention, the name of the unit is properly written in all-lowercase, but its abbreviation is capitalized.-SI base units:...
  
  
• Universities and colleges named after people
• List of eponymous adjectives in English