< Reconstruction:Proto-Oceanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Oceanic/tuna
Proto-Oceanic
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuna/
Noun
*tuna
- freshwater eel
Descendants
- Admiralty Islands:
- Manus Islands:
- Gele': drun
- Kurti: drun
- Mondropolon: cun
- Southeastern Islands:
- Lenkau: trun
- Penchal: run
- Manus Islands:
- Central-Eastern Oceanic:
- Central Pacific:
- Fijian: duna
- Polynesian: *tuna
- Nuclear Polynesian:
- Eastern Polynesian:
- Marquesic:
- Hawaiian: kuna
- Mangarevan: tuna
- Tahitic:
- Maori: tuna
- Rarotongan: tuna
- Rapa: tuna
- Tahitian: tuna
- Tuamotuan: tuna
- Marquesic:
- Western Polynesian:
- Ellicean-Outlier:
- Nuguria: tuna
- Nukuoro: tuna
- Pileni: tuna
- Takuu: tuna
- Tuvaluan: tuna
- Futunic:
- Anuta: tuna
- East Futuna: tuna
- Futuna-Aniwa: tuna
- Pukapukan: tuna
- Tikopia: tuna
- Samoic:
- Niuatoputapu: tuna
- Samoan: tuna
- Ellicean-Outlier:
- Eastern Polynesian:
- Tongic:
- Niuean: tuna
- Tongan: tuna
- Nuclear Polynesian:
- Rotuman: funa
- Western Fijian: tuna
- Micronesian: *tuna
- Kosraean: ton
- → Marshallese: toṇ
- Central Pacific:
- Western Oceanic:
- North New Guinea:
- Ngero–Vitiaz
- Gitua: tuna
- Mbula: tuunu
- Schouten:
- Kairiru: tun
- Wogeo: tuña
- Ngero–Vitiaz
- Papuan Tip:
- Wedau: tuna
- North New Guinea:
Further reading
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *tuNa