Tuna

• (General Australian, UK) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːnə/, /ˈtuːnə/, /ˈtʉ.nɐ/
• (US) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtu.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

From Swedish Tuna, from Old Norse Tuna, from tún (“enclosure, enclosed area, settlement”).

Tuna

1. Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.

• Tune (the equivalent Danish and Norwegian placename)

Borrowed from Māori Tuna.

Tuna

1. (Maori mythology) A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.
   • 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).

• T. Deverson, G. Kennedy, editors (2005), The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, Victoria: Oxford University Press
• M. King (2004), The Penguin History of New Zealand, Auckland: Penguin Books
• H. W. Orsman, editor (1997), The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles, Auckland: Oxford University Press
• Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

• Tūna
• Tuna-roa

From tuna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuna/ [ˈtʉnɐ]

Tuna

1. (Maori mythology) An eel-god, the son of Manga-wai-roa, one of the lesser Maori deities who lived in a water hole called Muri-wai-o-ata.

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “Tuna”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[1], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

From Ottoman Turkish طونه (Tuna).

• IPA^(key): /tuna/

Tuna

1. a female given name
2. a male given name
3. Danube (a river in Europe)