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tuna

See also: Tuna, tuná, and tu'na
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English

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Etymology 1

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Relative sizes of various tunas

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.

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tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

  1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
    • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, page 84:
      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).
  2. The edible flesh of the tuna.
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Armenian: թունա (tʻuna)
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Etymology 2

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From Taíno.

 
Prickly pear.

Noun

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tuna (plural tunas)

  1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit of the cactus.
    • 1907, Experiment Station Work, volume 3, page 94:
      THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Akawaio

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

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tuna

  1. water
  2. rain

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  • Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

Apalaí

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

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tuna

  1. water

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Bagua

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Etymology

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Likely ultimately from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
  • Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

Carijona

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. (Carijona) water

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References

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  • Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

Cebuano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Philippine *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

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  • Hyphenation: tu‧na

Noun

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tuna

  1. the name of a small, glossy-black, worm-like snake, deadly poisonous, found in moist places in grasses and weeds, possibly the blind snake

Chaima

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

Chamorro

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Verb

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tuna

  1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

Cumanagoto

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Etymology

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Likely from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
  • Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuna f

  1. ton (unit of weight)

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Declension of tuna (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative tuna tuny
genitive tuny tun
dative tuně tunám
accusative tunu tuny
vocative tuno tuny
locative tuně tunách
instrumental tunou tunami

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  • “tuna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “tuna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tuna

  1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

Hixkaryana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

References

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  • Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN, page 170

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtu.na]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧na

Etymology 1

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From Arabic تُنَّ (tunna), تُنّ (tunn), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

Noun

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tuna (first-person possessive tunaku, second-person possessive tunamu, third-person possessive tunanya)

  1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Old Javanese tuna (“deficient, failing, lacking”), from Sanskrit तुन्न (tunna, “struck, hurt”).

Adjective

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tuna

  1. damaged
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Derived terms
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Kari'na

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

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Noun

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tuna (possessed tunary)

  1. water
  2. river

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 392
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “tuna”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 472; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[2], Paris, 1956, page 462
  • Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004) The Languages of the Andes

Macushi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
  • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

Malay

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

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tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

  1. The name of a mudsnake or eel with a yellowish body, possibly the marbled eel, Anguilla marmorata.
    • 2015 December 6, Shaiful Shahrin Ahmad Pauzi, “Rezeki lampam mabuk menyerah diri [Pixilated tinfoil barb surrendered itself]”, in Berita Harian‎[3], archived from the original on 20 March 2016:
      Mohd Akhmal berkata, selain ikan lampam, seorang penduduk turut dapat menangkap seekor belut tuna seberat hampir tiga kilogram menggunakan jala.
      Mohd Akhmal said, besides a tinfoil barb, a resident has managed to catch a marbled eel weighing almost three kilograms using a net.
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Etymology 2

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From English tuna.

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tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

  1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
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Etymology 3

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From Sanskrit तुणति (tuṇati, “crooked”).

Noun

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tuna (plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)

  1. wound

Adjective

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tuna

  1. damaged, flawed, injured

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Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

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Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

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Noun

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tuna

  1. eel of various species, including longfin eels (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and shortfin eels (Anguilla australis)

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References

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  • “tuna” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mapoyo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
  • Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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tuna n

  1. definite plural of tun

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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tūna

  1. genitive plural of tūn

Opón

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

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  • Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
  • Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

Panare

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Noun

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tuna

  1. Alternative form of tïna (“water”)

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
  • Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
  • Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

Pemon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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  • Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"
  1. ^ 2006, Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, attachment 7.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).[1]

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tuna f (plural tunas)

  1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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tuna

  1. inflection of tunar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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  1. ^ “tuna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

Pukapukan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

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tuna

  1. a kind of fish
  2. a striped lagoon eel, toothless and edible

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Further reading

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Purukotó

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

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tuná

  1. water

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  • Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
  • Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Quechua

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. prickly pear (fruit)

Declension

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declension of tuna
singular plural
nominative tuna tunakuna
accusative tunata tunakunata
dative tunaman tunakunaman
genitive tunap tunakunap
locative tunapi tunakunapi
terminative tunakama tunakunakama
ablative tunamanta tunakunamanta
instrumental tunawan tunakunawan
comitative tunantin tunakunantin
abessive tunannaq tunakunannaq
comparative tunahina tunakunahina
causative tunarayku tunakunarayku
benefactive tunapaq tunakunapaq
associative tunapura tunakunapura
distributive tunanka tunakunanka
exclusive tunalla tunakunalla
possessive forms of tuna
ñuqap - first-person singular
ñuqap (my) singular plural
nominative tunay tunaykuna
accusative tunayta tunaykunata
dative tunayman tunaykunaman
genitive tunaypa tunaykunap
locative tunaypi tunaykunapi
terminative tunaykama tunaykunakama
ablative tunaymanta tunaykunamanta
instrumental tunaywan tunaykunawan
comitative tunaynintin tunaykunantin
abessive tunayninnaq tunaykunannaq
comparative tunayhina tunaykunahina
causative tunayrayku tunaykunarayku
benefactive tunaypaq tunaykunapaq
associative tunaypura tunaykunapura
distributive tunayninka tunaykunanka
exclusive tunaylla tunaykunalla
qampa - second-person singular
qampa (your) singular plural
nominative tunayki tunaykikuna
accusative tunaykita tunaykikunata
dative tunaykiman tunaykikunaman
genitive tunaykipa tunaykikunap
locative tunaykipi tunaykikunapi
terminative tunaykikama tunaykikunakama
ablative tunaykimanta tunaykikunamanta
instrumental tunaykiwan tunaykikunawan
comitative tunaykintin tunaykikunantin
abessive tunaykinnaq tunaykikunannaq
comparative tunaykihina tunaykikunahina
causative tunaykirayku tunaykikunarayku
benefactive tunaykipaq tunaykikunapaq
associative tunaykipura tunaykikunapura
distributive tunaykinka tunaykikunanka
exclusive tunaykilla tunaykikunalla
paypa - third-person singular
paypa (his/her/its) singular plural
nominative tunan tunankuna
accusative tunanta tunankunata
dative tunanman tunankunaman
genitive tunanpa tunankunap
locative tunanpi tunankunapi
terminative tunankama tunankunakama
ablative tunanmanta tunankunamanta
instrumental tunanwan tunankunawan
comitative tunanintin tunankunantin
abessive tunanninnaq tunankunannaq
comparative tunanhina tunankunahina
causative tunanrayku tunankunarayku
benefactive tunanpaq tunankunapaq
associative tunanpura tunankunapura
distributive tunaninka tunankunanka
exclusive tunanlla tunankunalla
ñuqanchikpa - first-person inclusive plural
ñuqanchikpa (our(incl)) singular plural
nominative tunanchik tunanchikkuna
accusative tunanchikta tunanchikkunata
dative tunanchikman tunanchikkunaman
genitive tunanchikpa tunanchikkunap
locative tunanchikpi tunanchikkunapi
terminative tunanchikkama tunanchikkunakama
ablative tunanchikmanta tunanchikkunamanta
instrumental tunanchikwan tunanchikkunawan
comitative tunanchiknintin tunanchikkunantin
abessive tunanchikninnaq tunanchikkunannaq
comparative tunanchikhina tunanchikkunahina
causative tunanchikrayku tunanchikkunarayku
benefactive tunanchikpaq tunanchikkunapaq
associative tunanchikpura tunanchikkunapura
distributive tunanchikninka tunanchikkunanka
exclusive tunanchiklla tunanchikkunalla
ñuqaykup - first-person exclusive plural
ñuqaykup (our(excl)) singular plural
nominative tunayku tunaykukuna
accusative tunaykuta tunaykukunata
dative tunaykuman tunaykukunaman
genitive tunaykupa tunaykukunap
locative tunaykupi tunaykukunapi
terminative tunaykukama tunaykukunakama
ablative tunaykumanta tunaykukunamanta
instrumental tunaykuwan tunaykukunawan
comitative tunaykuntin tunaykukunantin
abessive tunaykunnaq tunaykukunannaq
comparative tunaykuhina tunaykukunahina
causative tunaykurayku tunaykukunarayku
benefactive tunaykupaq tunaykukunapaq
associative tunaykupura tunaykukunapura
distributive tunaykunka tunaykukunanka
exclusive tunaykulla tunaykukunalla
qamkunap - second-person plural
qamkunap (your(pl)) singular plural
nominative tunaykichik tunaykichikkuna
accusative tunaykichikta tunaykichikkunata
dative tunaykichikman tunaykichikkunaman
genitive tunaykichikpa tunaykichikkunap
locative tunaykichikpi tunaykichikkunapi
terminative tunaykichikkama tunaykichikkunakama
ablative tunaykichikmanta tunaykichikkunamanta
instrumental tunaykichikwan tunaykichikkunawan
comitative tunaykichiknintin tunaykichikkunantin
abessive tunaykichikninnaq tunaykichikkunannaq
comparative tunaykichikhina tunaykichikkunahina
causative tunaykichikrayku tunaykichikkunarayku
benefactive tunaykichikpaq tunaykichikkunapaq
associative tunaykichikpura tunaykichikkunapura
distributive tunaykichikninka tunaykichikkunanka
exclusive tunaykichiklla tunaykichikkunalla
paykunap - third-person plural
paykunap (their) singular plural
nominative tunanku tunankukuna
accusative tunankuta tunankukunata
dative tunankuman tunankukunaman
genitive tunankupa tunankukunap
locative tunankupi tunankukunapi
terminative tunankukama tunankukunakama
ablative tunankumanta tunankukunamanta
instrumental tunankuwan tunankukunawan
comitative tunankuntin tunankukunantin
abessive tunankunnaq tunankukunannaq
comparative tunankuhina tunankukunahina
causative tunankurayku tunankukunarayku
benefactive tunankupaq tunankukunapaq
associative tunankupura tunankukunapura
distributive tunankunka tunankukunanka
exclusive tunankulla tunankukunalla

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Further reading

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  • Pérez, Julio Calvo (2022) Nuevo diccionario español-quechua quechua-español, Vol. 2, Lima: University of San Martín de Porres, p. 1114.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

Verb

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a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

  1. to thunder
  2. to speak thunderously

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    conjugation of tuna (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a tuna
gerund tunând
past participle tunat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present tun tuni tună tunăm tunați tună
imperfect tunam tunai tuna tunam tunați tunau
simple perfect tunai tunași tună tunarăm tunarăți tunară
pluperfect tunasem tunaseși tunase tunaserăm tunaserăți tunaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să tun să tuni să tune să tunăm să tunați să tune
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative tună tunați
negative nu tuna nu tunați

Derived terms

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Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

Noun

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tuna

  1. eel

Sapará

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tu꞉ná

  1. water

References

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  • Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
  • Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtuna/ [ˈt̪u.na]
  • Rhymes: -una
  • Syllabification: tu‧na

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Taíno.

Noun

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tuna f (plural tunas)

  1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)
    Synonym: higo de tuna
  2. nopal
    Synonyms: nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias
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  • Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of tuna is atún.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

Noun

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tuna f (plural tunas)

  2. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina
Descendants
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  • → Portuguese: tuna

Further reading

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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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tuna f (plural tunas)

  1. female equivalent of tuno

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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tuna

  1. inflection of tunar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

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Verb

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tuna

  1. first-person plural present affirmative of -wa na

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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tunâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ)

  1. (dialectal) submerged; sunk
    Synonym: lubog
  2. (dialectal) collapsed; destroyed
    Synonyms: giba, bagsak, lagpak, huso

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English tuna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ)

  1. tuna
    Synonym: atun
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Anagrams

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Tamanaku

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

References

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
  • Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Tetum

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. eel

Trió

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

Further reading

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  • Eithne Carlin, A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (2004)

Wayana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

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Wayumara

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuná

  1. water

References

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  • Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
  • Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Yabarana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Noun

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tuna

  1. water

References

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  • Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
  • Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tuna
Brazilian standard tuna
New Tribes tuna

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuna

  1. water
  2. river, watercourse

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tuna”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[4], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 399: “[ṭuna] 'water' […] tuna - water”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tuna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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