EuroLex/E/Tank 3

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tank3

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 1 'fill the tank (of a vehicle etc.) with fuel', 2 'drink heavily, become drunk'


(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 tankirati mid20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tanken [tεngkə(n)] 1940s the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English status: fully accepted, but still marked as English ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish tankata beg20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German tanken beg20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English 1960s: meaning 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (colloquial) ...
Hungarian ... 20c 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (facetious) end19c/beg20c, meaning 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tanke [taŋke] 20c 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Polish tankowa´c [tankovatç] mid20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as 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: tanca [tanka], 20c, via German?, meaning: 1, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (rare);,