tonn

From Middle Low German tonne or German Tonne. See also tünn, which is loaned from an alternative form of the Low German word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonʲː/

tonn (genitive tonni, partitive tonni)

1. ton, tonne

   See kamakas kaalub kaks tonni!

   This slab weighs two tonnes!

2. (colloquial, of currency) thousand, grand

   Mul istub pangas viis tonni.

   I have five grand sitting in the bank.

Declension of tonn (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tonn	tonnid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tonni
genitive			tonnide
partitive		tonni	tonne tonnisid
illative		tonni tonnisse	tonnidesse tonnesse
inessive		tonnis	tonnides tonnes
elative		tonnist	tonnidest tonnest
allative		tonnile	tonnidele tonnele
adessive		tonnil	tonnidel tonnel
ablative		tonnilt	tonnidelt tonnelt
translative		tonniks	tonnideks tonneks
terminative		tonnini	tonnideni
essive		tonnina	tonnidena
abessive		tonnita	tonnideta
comitative		tonniga	tonnidega

From Old Norse tǫnn, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔnː/

tonn f (genitive singular tannar, plural tenn)

1. tooth

From Old Irish tonn (“wave, outpouring, abundance”), from Proto-Celtic *tundā (“wave”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɑun̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Aran, Mayo) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔn̪ˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige, Connemara) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠuːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠʌn̪ˠ/^[2]

tonn f (genitive singular toinne, nominative plural tonnta)

1. wave
   • 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 2:

     Briseann tonnta boga in aghaidh na gcarraigeacha thíos faoi.

     [original: Waves gently lap against the rocks below.]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tonn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from Italian tonno and/or Sicilian tunnu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔnn/

tonn m (collective, singulative tonna, paucal tonniet)

1. tuna

From Old Irish tonn (“wave, outpouring, abundance”).

tonn f (genitive singular [please provide], plural tonnyn)

1. wave, billow

• tonnagh

Borrowed from English ton.

tonn n (definite singular tonnet, indefinite plural tonn, definite plural tonna or tonnene)

1. a ton (usually a metric ton (1000 kg), but it can also refer to the British or American tons)
2. a tonne (metric ton)
3. (nautical) a displacement ton, gross ton or net ton (depending on context)

• gigatonn

• “tonn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English ton.

tonn n (definite singular tonnet, indefinite plural tonn, definite plural tonna)

1. a ton (as above)
2. a tonne (metric ton)
3. (nautical) a displacement ton, gross ton or net ton (depending on context)

• gigatonn

From Old Norse tǫnn.

tonn f (definite singular tonni, indefinite plural tenner, definite plural tennene)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tann

• “tonn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• tond

• IPA^(key): [ton͈]

From Proto-Celtic *tundā (“wave”).

tonn f

1. wave
2. outpouring
3. sea
4. abundance
5. bog, swamp

• Middle Irish: tonn
  • Irish: tonn
  • Manx: tonn
  • Scottish Gaelic: tonn

From Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface, skin”).

tonn f

1. surface
2. land, earth
4. skin

From Old Irish tonn (“wave, outpouring, abundance”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɔun̪ˠ/

tonn m (genitive tuinn or tuinne, plural tuinn or tonnan)

1. wave

• àmhainn meanbh-thonnach
• cumhachd nan tonn

• tonna

tonn

1. ton (unit of weight)

   26 meñ tonn = 26 thousand tons. [1]

From Middle High German tanne, from Old High German tanna, from Proto-Germanic *dannǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”).

tonn f (plural tonna)

1. fir

• tenna