tun – English noun declension

English noun forms of tun

Noun: tun
Singulartun
Pluraltuns; tunob

Sample Sentences

  • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page 205:]
  • He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, / This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this, / Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim / Hear no more of you. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • A Tun of Man in thy Large bulk is writ, / But sure thou'rt but a Kilderkin of wit. [1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe, lines 195–196:]
  • So abundant is the supply of tankards and "tuns" […] [1900, Douglas Macleane, Pembroke College, page 249:]

Nouns inflected like tun

batabil, bʼakʼtun, batab, tun, sacbe, k'atun,

Etymology

1. 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.
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'tunne', Old English Nouns 'tunne', Latin Nouns 'tunna', Dutch Nouns 'ton', German Nouns 'Tonne', Danish Nouns 'tønde', Swedish Nouns 'tunna', Icelandic Nouns 'tunna', French Nouns 'tonneau'.

Verbs referencing "tun"

Finnish Nouns tynnyri, Russian Nouns тун.