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EuroLex/E/Tennis

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tennis

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 'a game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court'


(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 tennis [= English] beg20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tennis [= English] 19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish tennis [ten:is] 19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
French tennis [tenis] end19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Tennis [= English] 19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Hungarian tenisz [= English] beg19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian tennis [= English] beg19c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tennis [= English] beg20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Polish tenis beg20c the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish tenis end19c the same as in English, 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: tennis [thεn:is], end9c, via Danish, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Romanian: tenis [= English], beg20c, via French, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tenis, beg20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Bulgarian: tenis, beg20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Albanian: tenis, end19c, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Greek: tenis, end19c, meaning: the same as in English, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;,