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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">tunny-fish</b> (Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 62, A. Pers. 424, Arist.). Fem. <b class="b3">*θύννα</b> or <b class="b3">*-η</b>, gen. <b class="b3">-ης</b> with <b class="b3">-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-άς</b> (Com.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in <b class="b3">θυννο-σκόπος</b> <b class="b2">watch for tunnies</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">-έω</b> (Ar.) with <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">-εῖον</b> (Str.). -<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">θύνναξ</b>, <b class="b3">-ακος</b> m. (Com.; affective formation, Björck Alpha impurum 62); <b class="b3">θυννίτης</b> <b class="b2">tunny-fisher</b> (inscr. Varna; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 39), <b class="b3">θύννειος</b>, <b class="b3">θυνναῖος</b> <b class="b2">of tunny</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">θυννώδης</b> <b class="b2">tunny-like</b> (Luc.), <b class="b3">θυννεῖα</b> pl. n. <b class="b2">tunny-fishing</b> (Troizen), <b class="b3">θυννευτικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to tunny-fishing</b> (Luc.; as from <b class="b3">*θυννεύω</b>, cf. also <b class="b3">ἁλιευτικός</b> a. o.); denomin. verbs <b class="b3">θυννάζω</b> <b class="b2">catch tunny</b> (Ar.), also <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> (Suid.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Mediterranean word, often compared with Hebr. [[tannīn]] <b class="b2">big water-animal, whale, shark</b>; Lewy Fremdw.; "qui est loin à tous égards" comments DELG 14f. See Strömberg Fischnamen 126f., Thompson Fishes s. v., also on folketymologies (<b class="b3">θύω</b>, <b class="b3">θύνω</b>). Lat. LW [loanword] [[thynnus]], [[thunnus]], from where the roman. forms. - The fem. in short <b class="b3">-α</b> rather points to Pre-Greek (s. Bq.)