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語源 1

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

固有名詞

Tuna

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

関連する語

• Tune (the equivalent Danish かつ Norwegian placename)

語源 2

From Maori Tuna.

固有名詞

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).

参照

• 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.

アナグラム

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan