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Etymology

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From Middle French thon +‎ -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.

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tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)

  1. (dated) tuna
    • 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:
      You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--

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  • Irish: tuinnín

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