trailer

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 1a 'the rear section of an articulated lorry', 1c 'a platform for transporting a boat etc.', 1d 'a caravan', +1e 'a single-axe carrier for horses, etc.', 2 'a series of brief extracts from a film used to advertise it in advance'


(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 treiler end20c 1a, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch trailer [= English] 1950s/1940s 1950s: 2; 1940s: 1a,1c, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish traileri [treileri] 1980s 1c, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; dito ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German trailer [tre:la] 1980s 1c,+1e, status: restricted use: technical, rare; 2, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Hungarian tréler < utánfutó [tre:ler] 1960s 1a,1c, status: restricted use: technical, archaic; dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian trailer [treiler] 1940s 1c,+1e, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian trailer [= English/træiler] mid20c 1a, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; 2, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish trailer [trailer] 1950s 1a,2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; 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: trailer < 1d: hjólhýsi (creat.) [= English], 1970s, meaning: 1d, status: restricted use: colloquial; 2, status: restricted use: technical; Romanian: traila/treiler [trailə(r)/treiler], 1970s, meaning: 1a,1c,2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (technical); Russian: treiler, end20c, meaning: 1c, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Greek: treiler, 1990s, meaning: 1c, status: restricted use: technical; 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (modern, journalese);,