tunna

From Old Norse tunna or Middle Low German tunne, both from Medieval Latin tunna (“wine barrel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰʊnːa/

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, plural tunnur)

1. ton
2. (archaic, cubic measure) 8 skeppur

   Synonym: krambúðarmál

3. (nautical) crow's nest

From Old Norse tunna or Middle Low German tunne, both from Medieval Latin tunna (“wine barrel”).

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, nominative plural tunnur)

1. barrel, cask, tun

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”).

tunna m (genitive singular tunna, nominative plural tunnaí)

1. tun

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “tunna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• tonna

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪un.na]

tunna f (genitive tunnae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. tun, box

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: tona, tonya
• Old French: tonne
  • French: tonne
    • → English: tonne
• Old French: tonel
  • Galician: tonel, tonelada
  • Portuguese: tonel, tonelada
  • Spanish: tonel, tonelada
• → Proto-West Germanic: *tunnā, *tonnā, *tunnu (see there for further descendants)

• "tunna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

tunna f sg

1. definite singular of tunne

• tunne (e infinitive)

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

• “tunna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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From tunn.

tunna

1. inflection of tunn:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

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.

• tunna av
• tunna ut

• förtunna

From Old Swedish tunna, from Old Norse tunna. Cognate with Old Saxon tunna, Old English tunne, Medieval Latin tunna, tonna.

tunna c

2. a barrel (round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop)
3. a drum (of for example metal or plastic, with similar sense extension from barrel as in English)
4. a barrel, an historic measure of dry volume, four-bushel measure

• dunk
• fat
• pipa

• tunna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tunna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tunna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• unnat