tona

tona (plural tonas)

1. Alternative form of tonal (“animal companion”).

• NATO, Nato, anot, nato, nota

From Late Latin tunna. Doublet of tonya. Cognate with Portuguese, Galician, and Spanish tonel.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈto.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈto.na/

tona f (plural tones)

1. tun (cask with a capacity of more than 500 liters)
2. ton, tonne

• tonatge
• tonell

• “tona” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tona”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tona” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tona” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• to̱na (Mecayapan and Tatahuicapan)
• tuna (Tetelcingo)

• IPA^(key): /toːna/
• IPA^(key): /tuna/ (Tetelcingo)

tona

1. (intransitive) To shine; be sunny.
2. (intransitive) To be warm.

• Brewer, Forrest; Jean G. Brewer (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Telecingo, Morelos: castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 19, 50, 242
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 245
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 240
• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎, 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 194, 261

tona

1. (colloquial) essive singular of toi

• Nato, anot, anto, nato, otan, tano, taon

14th century. From a local Celtic substrate language,[1] from Proto-Celtic *tonnā or *tondā (“skin”); from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, from *temh₂- (“to cut”). Compare Old Irish tonn (“skin, surface”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtona̝/

tona f (plural tonas)

1. film (solid or opaque layer on a liquid)
   • [1746-1755], Martín Sarmiento, Catálogo de voces y frases de la lengua gallega :

     tona. Es la tez o nata que cría cualquiera líquido.

     tona: it is the film or pelicule which is generated in any liquid

2. rind (of a vegetable, of cheese)
   • 1840, Antonio María de la Iglesia, Poesía, page 39

     non ten pelo na cachola qu'é de tona de cabazo

     he has no hair in his head, which is made of rind of pumpkin

3. bark
   • [1390], J. Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 96

     chantarõ suas lanças ante as tẽdas, et en outro dia manãa acharõnas estar frolidas et cõ tona

     they nailed their spears in front of their tents, and the next morning they found them covered with bark and blooming

4. surface or upper layer of the soil

• estonar

• “tona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tona” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

tona

1. A kind of freshwater eel.

• Ibatan-English Dictionary

From Dutch tonen, plural of toon, from Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtona]
• Hyphenation: to‧na

tona (first-person possessive tonaku, second-person possessive tonamu, third-person possessive tonanya)

1. (linguistics) tone: the pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

• ton

• “tona” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

tona

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

• OTAN, anto-, nato, nota, onta

tonā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tonō

• tona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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

tona

1. A species of very large nocturnal serpent.

   Synonym: dona

2. (figurative) An eel too large to be used as food because of its resemblance to a tona.

• tona in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

toná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

toná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

Borrowed from French tonne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Syllabification: to‧na

tona f

1. tonne
2. ton (2240 pounds)

• tona in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /tôna/
• Hyphenation: to‧na

tȍna f (Cyrillic spelling то̏на)

1. tonne
2. ton (2240 pounds)

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

toná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

toná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

• audio

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tona (present tonar, preterite tonade, supine tonat, imperative tona)

1. to sound

• ton

• Nato, nota

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.na/
• Hyphenation: to‧na

From Proto-Polynesian *te-o-na. Cognates include Hawaiian kona and Samoan lona.

tona

1. (inalienable, definite) his, her

From Proto-Polynesian *tona-tona (“clitoris”). Cognates include Maori tonetone and Samoan tona.

tona

1. (vulgar) anus

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 397

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

tona

1. eel

• Yami (Tao) Dictionary Project