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tunna

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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Declension of tunna
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

Declension

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declension of tunna
f-w1 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

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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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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tunna thunna dtunna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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.

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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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tunna tunnae
Genitive tunnae tunnārum
Dative tunnae tunnīs
Accusative tunnam tunnās
Ablative tunnā tunnīs
Vocative tunna tunnae

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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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.
Conjugation
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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
Participles
Present participle tunnande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms
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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
Declension
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Declension of tunna 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tunna tunnan tunnor tunnorna
Genitive tunnas tunnans tunnors tunnornas
Derived terms
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Anagrams

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