tunny

• thunny (archaic)

From Middle French thon +‎ -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.

• IPA^(key): /tʌni/

tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)

1. (dated) Tuna.
   • 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:

     You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--

• → Irish: tuinnín

• nunty