teen

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 'a youth aged 13 to 19'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch teen < tiener ... '...' '...' ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish teini 19c the same as in English, status: word comes from other source than English: Swedish dito ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German teen < Teenager [= English] 1960s the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial, obsolete) dito ...
Hungarian teen < tini ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian teen < tenaring ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish teen [tin] 1990s the same as in English, status: restricted use: journalese, modern dito ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Information on Other Languages: Russian: teen, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Greek: teens, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: modern;,