tunna

See also: tʊŋŋa and 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

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

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

Declension of tunna (feminine)

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

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

Declension of tunna (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative tunna tunnaí vocative a thunna a thunnaí genitive tunna tunnaí dative tunna tunnaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an tunna na tunnaí genitive an tunna na dtunnaí dative leis an tunna don tunna leis na tunnaí

Mutation

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “tunna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Latin

Alternative forms

• tonna

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *tend-

Proto-Indo-European *tondeh₂

Proto-Celtic *tondā

Gaulishbor.?

Latin tunna

Probably of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tondā, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface, skin”), though Matasović 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtun.na]

Noun

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

1. tun, box

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tunna	tunnae
genitive	tunnae	tunnārum
dative	tunnae	tunnīs
accusative	tunnam	tunnās
ablative	tunnā	tunnīs
vocative	tunna	tunnae

Descendants

• Asturian: tuña, ⇒ atuñar
• Catalan: tona, tonya
• Old French: tone, tonne, toun, toune, tune
  • Middle French: tonne
    • French: tonne
      • → English: tonne
      • → Persian: تن (ton)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *tunnā, *tonnā, *tunnu (see there for further descendants)

References

• "tunna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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

• Audio:

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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

Conjugation of tunna (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	tunna		tunnas
supine	tunnat		tunnats
imperative	tunna		—
imper. plural1	tunnen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	tunnar	tunnade	tunnas	tunnades
ind. plural1	tunna	tunnade	tunnas	tunnades
subjunctive2	tunne	tunnade	tunnes	tunnades
present participle		tunnande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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.

en tunna (sense 1)

Noun

tunna c

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

Declension

Declension of tunna

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tunna	tunnas
	definite	tunnan	tunnans
plural	indefinite	tunnor	tunnors
	definite	tunnorna	tunnornas

Derived terms

• flygande tunnan
• hoppa i galen tunna
• regntunna
• rågtunna
• tunnband
• tunnbindare
• tunnformad
• tunnformig
• tunnland
• tunnstav
• tunntals
• tunnvalv
• tunnvis

See also

• dunk
• fat
• pipa

References

• “tunna”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “tunna”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tunna”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• unnat