Tunne

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tunne

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: wín-tunne. tunne

Definitions

1 tunne

f. A barrel, cask:--Tunne cuba, Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 56: 17, 29: cupa, i. 24, 54: 83, 26: cantarus, ubi aqua mittitur, vel ydria, ii. 128, 11. Twá tunnan fulle hlútres aloð, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 203, 8: Chr. 852; Erl. 67, 38. Tunnena cuparum, modiorum, Hpt. Gl. 488, 73: cuparum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 18, 35. Caupo wínbyrels oððe on tunnum, 21, 13. Nim fela tunnan, and dó hí ðǽr on innan . . . Hí wurdon ðá gebrohte ealle tó ðám tunnum, Homl. Skt. i. 4, 259-307. [O. Frs. tunne: Du. ton: O. H. Ger. tunna ydria, crater: Ger. tonne: Icel. tunna: Swed. tunna: Dan. tønde. There are both Celtic and Low Latin forms, tunna; from which the English is taken is uncertain.]

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚢᚾᚾᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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