Words that come from Ancient Greek “θύνω”

50 words across 26 languages descend from Ancient Greek θύνω — including tuna, tunny, tunnyfish, tunalike, thunnus, θύννος, ton, thon.

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English (8)

Italian (5)

Latin (4)

French (3)

Arabic (3)

Ligurian (3)

Danish (2)

Catalan (2)

Chinese (2)

German (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Translingual (1)

Japanese (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Georgian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Middle French (1)

Thai (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Antillean Creole (1)

Spanish (1)

Late Latin (1)