Tuna
proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue
- United States//ˈtu.nə//
- Australia//ˈtjuː.nə//
- New Zealand//ˈtjuːnə//
- New Zealand//ˈtuːnə//
- New Zealand//ˈtʉ.nɐ//
Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
proper noun
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Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
Etymology
From Swedish Tuna, from Old Norse Tuna, from tún (“enclosure, enclosed area, settlement”).
proper noun
- 1
A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.
Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. [...] The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).
Etymology
Borrowed from Māori Tuna.
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Tuna · Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
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