EuroLex/E/Tennis

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.)


 * 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;

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