toddy

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 1 'a drink of spirits with hot water and sugar or spices', 2 'the sap of some kinds of palm, fermented to produce arrack', +3 'cold grog without sugar'


(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 toddy 19c 2, status: known as a foreignism, used only with reference to British or American contexts; end18c: +3, status: restricted use: archaic dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French toddy 19c 2, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German toddy [= English] 19c 2,+3, status: known as a foreignism, used only with reference to British or American contexts / restricted use: archaic dito ...
Hungarian toddy [= English] 19c 2, status: restricted use: technical, archaic dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian toddy [= English] 19c 2, status: known as a foreignism, used only with reference to British or American contexts / restricted use: archaic dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian toddy/toddi [= English] mid19c 1,2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; dito ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish toddy [todi] 19c 2, status: restricted use: technical, rare 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: toddý [th ot:i], mid19c, via Danish, meaning: 1, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;,