EuroLex/E/Trailer
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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);,