EuroLex/E/Teenager
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teenager
- Original language: English
- Original form and meaning: 'a person (esp. a girl) from 13 to 19 years of age'
(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 | tinejdzer | mid20c | the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| Czech | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Danish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Dutch | teenager < tiener [= English] | 1950s | the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (obsolete) | dito | ... |
| English | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Estonian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Finnish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| French | teen-ager | 1950s | the same as in English, status: restricted use: modern | dito | ... |
| Frisian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| German | Teenager > Teen, Teenie [ti:ne:t∫a] | 1950s | the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (obsolete) | dito | ... |
| Hungarian | tinedzser = tizenéves [tine:dzer] | 1960s | the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English | dito | ... |
| Irish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Italian | teenager | 1950s | the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| Latvian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Lithuanian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Maltese | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Norwegian | teenager < tenaring (rendered) [= English] | mid20c | the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete | dito | ... |
| Polish | teenager < nastolatek (trsl) | end20c | the same as in English, status: restricted use: technical | dito | ... |
| Portuguese | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Rumantsch | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Slovak | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Slovenian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Spanish | teenager [= English] | 1970s | the same as in English, status: restricted use: journalese | 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: Icelandic: teenager < táningur; Romanian: teenager, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Russian: tineidzher / tinéidzer, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: technical, journalese, modern; Bulgarian: tiineidzhur, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Greek: tineitzer, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: modern, journalese;,