• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: à l'herte 'observant, wary, wakeful'


(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
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English alert 16th c. 1. 'on the watch, on the look-out, watchful, vigilant, wide-awake', 2. 'quick in attention and motion, lively, brisk, active, nimble', 3. 'the call to 'look out' for an attack, an alarm, hence, that which amounts to such a call, a 'waking up', a sudden attack or surprise' (milit.), 4. ' a signal given by means of a siren or hooter to indicate that an air attack is eminent, an air-raid attack or warning, also: the state of preparedness so produced to the period during which this alarm is in effect' '...' ...
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Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German alert End of 17th c. 1. 'brisk, awake' (dial.), 2. 'happy, sprightly' (dial.), 3. 'call in a children's game' (dial.), 4. 'lively' (dial.), 5. 'merry, glad' (dial.) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 129
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Irish ... ... '...' '...'
Italian all'erta ... Military context '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 129
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Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

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