EuroLex/E/Tip-top
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tip-top
- Original language: English
- Original form and meaning: adj./n. 'highest excellence: the very best'
(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 | tip-top | beg20c | the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| Czech | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Danish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Dutch | tip-top | beg20c | the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English | dito | ... |
| English | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Estonian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Finnish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| French | ... | ... | the same as in English, see above, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English | '...' | ... |
| Frisian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| German | tipptopp | uninfluenced, end19c | the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English | dito | ... |
| Hungarian | tipp-topp [= English] | end19c/beg20c | the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English | dito | ... |
| Irish | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Italian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Latvian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Lithuanian | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Maltese | ... | ... | '...' | '...' | ... |
| Norwegian | tipp topp [= English] | beg20c | the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English | dito | ... |
| Polish | tip-top | uninfluenced, beg20c | the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English | dito | ... |
| 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: Icelandic: tipptopp, uninfluenced, end19c, via Danish, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial); Romanian: tip-top, uninfluenced, beg20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tip-top, uninfluenced, mid20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: colloquial; Bulgarian: tip-top, uninfluenced, mid20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial);,