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tunna

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See also: tʊŋŋa

Faroese

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, plural tunnur)

  1. ton
  2. (archaic, cubic measure) 8 skeppur
    Synonym: krambúðarmál
  3. (nautical) crow's nest

Declension

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f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tunna tunnan tunnur tunnurnar
accusative tunnu tunnuna tunnur tunnurnar
dative tunnu tunnuni tunnum tunnunum
genitive tunnu tunnunnar tunna tunnanna

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

Noun

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tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, nominative plural tunnur)

  1. barrel, cask, tun

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Irish

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Etymology

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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

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tunna m (genitive singular tunna, nominative plural tunnaí)

  1. tun

Declension

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Declension of tunna (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tunna tunnaí
vocative a thunna a thunnaí
genitive tunna tunnaí
dative tunna tunnaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tunna na tunnaí
genitive an tunna na dtunnaí
dative leis an tunna
don tunna
leis na tunnaí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of tunna
radical lenition eclipsis
tunna thunna dtunna

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tondā, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (surface, skin), though Matasovic doubts this, stating that the meanings are too different.[1]

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

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Noun

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

  1. tun, box

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Descendants

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “tonda”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 383

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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tunna f sg

  1. definite singular of tunne

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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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

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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From tunn.

Adjective

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tunna

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

Verb

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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.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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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
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Anagrams

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