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EuroLex/E/Teenager

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teenager

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 'a person (esp. a girl) from 13 to 19 years of age'


(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 tinejdzer mid20c the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch teenager < tiener [= English] 1950s the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (obsolete) dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French teen-ager 1950s the same as in English, status: restricted use: modern dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Teenager > Teen, Teenie [ti:ne:t∫a] 1950s the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (obsolete) dito ...
Hungarian tinedzser = tizenéves [tine:dzer] 1960s the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian teenager 1950s the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian teenager < tenaring (rendered) [= English] mid20c the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete dito ...
Polish teenager < nastolatek (trsl) end20c the same as in English, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish teenager [= English] 1970s the same as in English, status: restricted use: journalese 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: teenager < táningur; Romanian: teenager, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Russian: tineidzher / tinéidzer, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: technical, journalese, modern; Bulgarian: tiineidzhur, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Greek: tineitzer, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: modern, journalese;,