Tuna

See also: tuna, tuná, and tu'na

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, UK) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnə/, /ˈtuːnə/, /ˈtʉ.nɐ/
• (US) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtu.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

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

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

Maori

Alternative forms

• Tūna
• Tuna-roa

Etymology

From tuna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.nɐ]

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

• IPA^(key): /tuna/

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