- θύννος
- θύννοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `tunny-fish' (Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 62, A. Pers. 424, Arist.). Fem. *θύννᾰ or *-η, gen. -ης with -ίς, -άς (Com.).Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in θυννο-σκόπος `watch for tunnies' (Arist.), -έω (Ar.) with -ία, -εῖον (Str.). -Derivatives: θύννᾱξ, -ᾱκος m. (Com.; affective formation, Björck Alpha impurum 62); θυννίτης `tunny-fisher' (inscr. Varna; Redard Les noms grecs en -της 39), θύννειος, θυνναῖος `of tunny' (Ar.), θυννώδης `tunny-like' (Luc.), θυννεῖα pl. n. `tunny-fishing' (Troizen), θυννευτικός `belonging to tunny-fishing' (Luc.; as from *θυννεύω, cf. also ἁλιευτικός a. o.); denomin. verbs θυννάζω `catch tunny' (Ar.), also -ίζω (Suid.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Mediterranean word, often compared with Hebr. tannīn `big water-animal, whale, shark'; Lewy Fremdw.; "qui est loin à tous égards" comments DELG 14f. See Strömberg Fischnamen 126f., Thompson Fishes s. v., also on folketymologies (θύω, θύνω). Lat. LW [loanword] thynnus, thunnus, from where the roman. forms. - The fem. in short -α rather points to Pre-Greek (s. Bq.)Page in Frisk: 1,694
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