EuroLex/E/Trick

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trick

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n./cp. 1 'an action or scheme undertaken to fool, outwit, or deceive', 2 'an optical or other illusion', 3 'a special technique', 4b 'an unusual action learnt by an animal'


(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 trik [= English] end19c the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch trick < truc(je) [trik] 1980s the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish trikki beg20c 1,2, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
French trick [trik] end18c 1, status: restricted use: technical; dito
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Trick [= English] beg19c 1,3,4b, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; dito ...
Hungarian ... ... the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian < trucco ... the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian trick/triks/trikk [= English] beg20c the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English dito ...
Polish trik/trick beg20c the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish < truco ... the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French 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: trikk [th rihk], mid20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial) / trix [th rixs], 1930s, via Danish, meaning: 1,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial); Romanian: < truc, the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French/Italian; Russian: < tryuc, the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: French; Bulgarian: trik, beg20c, meaning: 1,2,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English; Albanian: trik, beg20c, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: regional; Greek: trik, beg20c, meaning: 1,2,3, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English;,