Tuna

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See also: tuna and tuná

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Swedish Tuna, from Old Norse Tuna, from tún (“enclosure, enclosed area, settlement”).

Proper noun

Tuna

  1. Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
Related terms
  • Tune (the equivalent Danish and Norwegian placename)

Etymology 2

From Maori Tuna.

Proper noun

Tuna

  1. (Maori mythology) A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.
    • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, page 84:
      Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. [...] The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).

References

  • T. Deverson, G. Kennedy, editors (2005), The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, Victoria: Oxford University Press
  • M. King (2004) The Penguin History of New Zealand, Auckland: Penguin Books
  • H. W. Orsman, editor (1997), The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles, Auckland: Oxford University Press
  • Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.

Anagrams

Maori

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tuna.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tuna

  1. (Maori mythology) An eel-god, the son of Manga-wai-roa, one of the lesser Maori deities who lived in a water hole called Muri-wai-o-ata.

References

  • “Tuna” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طونه (Tuna).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tuna

  1. a female given name
  2. a male given name
  3. Danube (a river in Europe)

Declension

    declension of Tuna
singular plural
nominative Tuna Tunalar / Tuna'lar
accusative Tuna'yı Tunaları / Tuna'ları
dative Tuna'ya Tunalara / Tuna'lara
locative Tuna'da Tunalarda / Tuna'larda
ablative Tuna'dan Tunalardan / Tuna'lardan
genitive Tuna'nın Tunaların / Tuna'ların
    possessive of Tuna
singular plural
benim (my) Tuna'm Tunalarım / Tuna'larım
senin (your) Tuna'n Tunaların / Tuna'ların
onun (his/her/its) Tuna'sı Tunaları / Tuna'ları
bizim (our) Tuna'mız Tunalarımız / Tuna'larımız
sizin (your) Tuna'nız Tunalarınız / Tuna'larınız
onların (their) Tuna'sı / Tunaları / Tuna'ları Tunaları / Tuna'ları
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