EuroLex/F/Meringue

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  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: meringue - 1. meringue (in the sense of: a topping for pastry or pies made of a mixture of egg whites and sugar beaten until stiff and often baked until brown or a small pastry shell or cake made of stiffly beaten, baked egg whites and sugar, often containing fruit or nutmeats)



(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 marengs ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Dutch ... ... '...' '...' ...
English meringue 1706 'meaning 1' '...' http://www.etymonline.com, http://dictionary.reference.com
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish marenki ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Meringe ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian meringa ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian morengas ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian marengs ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese merengue ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Rumantsch Meringue ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish merengue ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Swedish maräng ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...

Annotations[edit | edit source]

Etymology: unknown origin

Perhabs to be identified with dialect (Walloon) maringue "shepherd's loaf", marinade food for an outdoor repast (< L merenda "light afternoon meal", probably fem. ger. of merere "to merit", such a meal being part of a labourer's wages). Certain evidence is lacking. association with the town of Meiringen (Bern canton, Switzerland) is solely by folk etymology.

Sorce: http://www.etymonline.com, http://dictionary.reference.com


Not to be mixed up with merengue (sometimes also calles méringue; is of AmerSp origin: 1935–40) : noun - 1. a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin, characterized by a stiff-legged, limping step

2. the music for this dance

verb (used without object) - to dance the merengue

Source: http://dictionary.reference.com


Information on Other Languages[edit | edit source]

all meaning 1:

Czech: sněhová pusinka

Dutch: schuimgebakje

Estonian: meering, besee

German (more common): Baiser (also of French origin baiser "kiss", this from Latin basiare "to kiss"): meaning 1, and also a male first name from Frisia (Northern Germany)

Hungarian: habcsók

Latvian: bezē

Lithuanian also: bezė

Polish: beza

Slovak: snehová (cukrová) pusinka

Slovenian: pecivo iz beljakove pene