# tunna
## Faroese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtʰʊnːa/

### Noun

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, plural tunnur)
* ton
* (archaic, cubic measure) 8 skeppur
    Synonym: krambúðarmál
* (nautical) crow's nest

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Noun

tunna f (genitive singular tunnu, nominative plural tunnur)
* barrel, cask, tun

#### Declension
## Irish
### Etymology

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

tunna m (genitive singular tunna, nominative plural tunnaí)
* tun

#### 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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* 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

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* tonna

### Etymology

Probably of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tondā, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface, skin”), though Matasovic doubts this, stating that the meanings are too different.
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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtun.na/, [ˈt̪ʊnːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtun.na/, [ˈt̪unːä]

### Noun

tunna f (genitive tunnae); first declension (Medieval Latin)
* tun, box

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* 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)

### References

* 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)
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “tonda”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 383

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tunna f sg
* definite singular of tunne

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* tunne (e infinitive)

#### Verb

tunna (present tense tunnar, past tense tunna, past participle tunna, passive infinitive tunnast, present participle tunnande, imperative tunna/tunn)
* to swing (around something), rotate
* to fuss, fidget

### References

* “tunna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From tunn.

#### Adjective

tunna
* inflection of tunn:
** definite singular
** plural

#### Verb

tunna (present tunnar, preterite tunnade, supine tunnat, imperative tunna)
* 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 gultat 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.

##### Derived terms

* tunna av
* tunna ut

#### Related terms

* förtunna

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

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

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | tunna | tunnas |
| singular | definite | tunnan | tunnans |
| plural | indefinite | tunnor | tunnors |
| plural | definite | tunnorna | tunnornas |

##### Derived terms

* flygande tunnan
* hoppa i galen tunna
* regntunna
* rågtunna
* tunnband
* tunnbindare
* tunnformad
* tunnformig
* tunnland
* tunnstav
* tunntals
* tunnvalv
* tunnvis

### References

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

### Anagrams

* unnat