EuroLex/E/Truck

truck


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: n. 2 'a big lorry', +8 'a pivoted chassis of a railway or lorry', +9 'a forklift truck'

(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: trukkur [th ryhkyr], mid20c, meaning: 2, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Romanian: truc [truk], mid20c, via French/German, meaning: +8, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (technical);

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