EuroLex/E/Transporter

transporter

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 2 'a vehicle used to transport other vehicles or large pieces of machinery etc. by road'


(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 ... ... status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch transporter mid20c the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... status: (nearly) identical to indigenous form in receptor language, form of semantic loan '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Transporter [= English] 1960s the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Hungarian ... ... status: word comes from other source than English: French; '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian transporter [= English] 1980s? the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... status: word comes from other source than English: '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
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: Romanian: transportor, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French; Russian: transporter, mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical) / word comes from other source than English: French; Albanian: transportier < mjet transportues;,