Word Origin Summary

Teenager is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• teenager

  Danish · borrowed from

• tinejdžer

  HBS · borrowed from

• tinejdžerica

  HBS · derived from

• táningur

  Icelandic · derived from

• tinejdžerka

  HBS · derived from

• թինեյջեր

  Armenian · borrowed from

• ティーンエージャー

  Japanese · borrowed from

• тинејџер

  HBS · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root