EuroLex/E/Tuner

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tuner

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 2 'a device for tuning a radio receiver', 3 'an electric device for tuning a guitar etc.', +4 'FM radio'


(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 tuner [tjuner] end20c 2, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tuner [= English] 1970s the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical); dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French tuner < syntoniseur 1960s 2,+4, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (banned); dito ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German tuner [tju:na] 1960s 2,+4, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Hungarian tuner [tiu:ner] mid20c 2,+4, status: restricted use: technical, written; dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian tuner < sintonizzatore [= English] 1980s 2, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tuner [= English] end20c 2,+4, status: restricted use: technical; dito ...
Polish tuner [= English, tuner] end20c 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: tuner [= English], end20c, meaning: 3, status: restricted use: technical; Russian: tyuner, end20c, meaning: 2,+4, status: restricted use: technical/modern; Bulgarian: tuner, mid20c, meaning: 2, status: restricted use: technical; Greek: tuner/tiuner, end20c, meaning: +4, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English (technical);,