Tuna

From Maori 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

Tuna

1. (Maori mythology) An eel-god, the son of Manga-wai-roa.
   • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, 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).

• H. W. Orsman, editor (1997) The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles, Auckland: Oxford University Press
• 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

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

• Tūna
• Tuna-roa

From tuna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.nɐ]

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.

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