terrier

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 'a small dog of various breeds originally used for turning out foxes etc. from their earths'


(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 terijer beg20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch terriër [tεriər] beg20c the same as in English, status: word comes from other source than English dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish terrieri 19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
French terrier ... the same as in English, status: (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Terrier [teriər] 19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Hungarian terrier [terrier] end19c/beg20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian terrier [tεrrjer/tεrie] 18c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian terrier [tærjer] end19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Polish terier beg20c, via French the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish terrier ... the same as in English, status: word comes from other source than English: French 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: terrier [= English], 20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Romanian: terier [terjer], end19c, meaning: the same as in English, status: word comes from other source than English: French; Russian: ter'er, beg20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: terier, beg20c, via French, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical); Greek: terie, 20c, via French, the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;,