Tuna

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See also: tuna, tuná, and tu'na

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

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Tuna

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

Etymology 2

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From Maori Tuna.

Proper noun

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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 (ngoiroconger-eel).

References

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  • 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

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Maori

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From tuna.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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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

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

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish طونه (Tuna).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tuna

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

Declension

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