Si nce it s introduc ti on for primary ed uca tion and adm ini s trati on in 1994 , therncom municative domain s o f Ged e' uffa have rcmarkably inc reased thus rcs ultin g in urgcntrnneeds to d evelop terminol ogy of fo r var io us fie lds s uc h as education. health. a gri culture,rnlaw, technology, etc. T he goal of te rm ino logy developmen t is to transfer sc ien tific andrntechn o logical k nowledge to the ta rget populat ion. It is ev id e nt that the ach ievement ofrnthi s goal not o nl y requ ires increased numbe r of term s in eac h techni ca l field but al sorns tandardized te rms . Thus, this is one of the preliminary wo rk s in s t~l11dardi z in g terms inrnGede'uffa for variou s techni cal fie lds.rnMethodo logicall y, th e study is a descriptive s urvey of terminologica l me t hods andrnp rin c iples in li ne w ith the Gede'uffa te rm in o logies. The data W;}s collected fr om I rille nrnsou rces and inte rviews of purpose fu ll y selected informants; a nd analyzed inductivcly.rnThe fr a m e of reference was set on th e me thodological desc rip ti ons th a t are adapted byrnseveral th eo retic ians of term in o logy such as Abdulaziz ( 1987 and 1989), Sager (1990),rnSage r and Nkwent i-Azeh (1989), Felber ( 19 82 anel 1984 ) and Taliard (2008): andrnexperi e nces of oth e r languages of Eth iopia, Africa and t he worl el. According to therns urvey eight methods s uch as scmantic transfer, deri vation, compounding, loanrntran s lat ion, borrow in g, abbrev iation, blending a nd reduplication were employed for termrncreation in Gede' u ffa . The exist in g terms of Gede'uffa h ave bee n investigated in relationrnto terminological principles that state the imporlance of syste mat ic icrm in o l