Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To put into tuns, or casks.
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) · A fermenting vat. · A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes. · Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunnǭ, *tunnō (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin. Cognate with North Frisian tenn (“tun, barrel, cask”), Dutch ton (“tun, barrel, cask”), German Tonne (“tun, barrel, drum”), Danish tønde (“barrel”), Swedish tunna (“barrel, cask, tun”), Icelandic tunna (“barrel”). Compare also Old French tonne, French tonneau (“ton, barrel”), Medieval Latin tunna (“cask”), Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), Welsh tynell (“tun, barrel”). It is uncertain whether the Germanic or the Celtic forms are the original.
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- Derivation mentiontunneenm
- Derivation mentiontunneang
- Derivation mention*tunnǭgem-pro
- Derivation mentiontunnala
- Cognate mentiontennfrr
- Cognate mentiontonnl
- Cognate mentionTonnede
- Cognate mentiontøndeda
- Cognate mentiontunnasv
- Cognate mentiontunnais
- Cognate mentiontonnefro
- Cognate mentiontonneaufr
- Cognate mentiontunnamga
- Cognate mentiontynellcy
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