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EuroLex/E/Tank 2

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tank2

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 2 'a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and and moving on a tracked carriage; 6 'platform shoes' (Belgian only)


(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 tenk mid20c 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tank [ = English] 1910s 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English status: fully accepted, but still marked as English ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish tankki < panssarivaunu mid20c 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English '...' ...
French tank [= English] < char, tankiste ... '...' 1910s, 2, status: restricted use: obsolete, banned ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German tank [taŋk] beg20c 2, status: restricted use: archaic < Panzer dito ...
Hungarian tank [tank] = harckocsi beg20c 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian tank [tεŋk / tεnk] < carro armato 1910s 2, status: restricted use: technical, obsolete dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tank/tanks [tæŋk(s)] mid20c 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English '...' ...
Polish tank [tank] < czolg mid20c 2, status: restricted use: archaic dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish tanque < carro de combate beg20c 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized 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: < 2: skriðdreki; Romanian: tanc [tank], mid20c, via French/German, meaning: 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tank, beg20c, meaning: 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: tank, beg20c, meaning: 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; mid20c, meaning: 6, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Albanian: tank, beg20c, meaning: 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Greek: tank(s), beg20c, meaning: 2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;,