adj - adjective

adv - adverb

Am - American

Arab - Arabic

arch - archaic

archit - architecture

astrol - astrology

astron - astronomy

bio - biology

Brit - British

cf - compare

chem - chemistry

Chi - Chinese

colloq - colloquial

conj - conjunction

derog - derogatory

Dut - Dutch

eg - for example

Eng - English

etc - and others

excl - exclamation

exp - expression

fig - figurative

Fr - French

geog - geography

geol - geology

geom - geometry

Ger - German

gram - grammar

Hindu - Hindustani

hist - history

ie - that is

illus - illustration

int - interjection

Jap - Japanese

ling - linguistics

lit - literally or literary

lit trans - literal translation

Mar - Marahti

maths- mathematics

mil - military

Mly - Malay

mus - music

myth - mythology

n - noun

obs - obsolet

onomat - onomatopoeic

orth - orthography

part - particle

Per - Persian

phonet - phonetics

phys - physics

pol - politics

Port - Portuguese

ppm - postpositional marker

pron - pronoun

pros - prosody

rhet - rhetoric

Russ - Russian

Sans - Sanskrit

sb - somebody

sl - slang

Spn - Spanish

spp - species

sth - something

syn - synonym

Tam - Tamil

v - verb

var - variant

viz. - namely

vulg - vulgar