tunna

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tunna or Middle Low German tunne, both from Medieval Latin tunna (“wine barrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰʊnːa/

Noun

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, plural tunnur)

1. ton
2. (archaic, cubic measure) 8 skeppur

   Synonym: krambúðarmál

3. (nautical) crow's nest

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tunna or Middle Low German tunne, both from Medieval Latin tunna (“wine barrel”).

Noun

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, nominative plural tunnur)

1. barrel, cask, tun

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), from Latin tunna, itself of Celtic origin, in which case probably a doublet of tonn (“leather, hide”). Compare Icelandic tunna (“barrel”).

Noun

tunna m (genitive singular tunna, nominative plural tunnaí)

1. tun

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tunna” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Alternative forms

• tonna

Etymology

Probably of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tondā, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface, skin”), though Matasovic doubts this, stating that the meanings are too different.

Related with Old Irish tonn (“skin”, also “wineskin”). Cognate with English tun, Dutch ton, German Tonne. The Germanic word is usually considered a borrowing from the Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtun.na/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtun.na/,

Noun

tunna f (genitive tunnae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. tun, box

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: tona, tonya
• Old French: tonne
  • French: tonne
    • → English: tonne
• Old French: tonel
  • Galician: tonel, tonelada
  • Portuguese: tonel, tonelada
  • Spanish: tonel, tonelada
• → Proto-West Germanic: *tunnā, *tonnā, *tunnu (see there for further descendants)

References

• tunna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

tunna f sg

1. definite singular of tunne

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• tunne (e infinitive)

Verb

tunna (present tense tunnar, past tense tunna, past participle tunna, passive infinitive tunnast, present participle tunnande, imperative tunna/tunn)

1. to swing (around something), rotate
2. to fuss, fidget

References

• “tunna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From tunn.

Adjective

tunna

1. inflection of tunn:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Verb

tunna (present tunnar, preterite tunnade, supine tunnat, imperative tunna)

1. to make or become thin or sparse, to disperse, to fade (used with prepositions ut, (rare) ur, (rare) av).

   åtminstone hade hans ansikte spår av en gammal våldsam solbränna, som för länge sedan hade tunnats ut till gult

   at least his face bore traces of an old grim tan, which long ago had faded to yellow

   Månen föll och stjärnorna tunnade av.

   The moon fell and the stars dispersed.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tunna av
• tunna ut

Related terms

• förtunna

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish tunna, from Old Norse tunna. Cognate with Old Saxon tunna, Old English tunne, Medieval Latin tunna, tonna.

Noun

tunna c

1. a barrel (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
2. a drum (of for example metal or plastic, with similar sense extension from barrel as in English)
3. a barrel, an historic measure of dry volume, four-bushel measure

Declension

Derived terms

References

• tunna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tunna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tunna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• unnat