German

Noun

Tonne f ‎(genitive Tonne, plural Tonnen, diminutive Tönnchen n)

1. tun
2. ton
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 25/2010, page 140:

     Mit seinen 30 Meter Länge und mitunter mehr als 150 Tonnen Gewicht übertrifft der Blauwal jedes andere Tier auf Erden.

     With its length of 30 meters and weight of sometimes more than 150 tons the blue whale surpasses every other animal on Earth.

3. tonne, metric ton
4. barrel, cask, drum
5. buoy
6. bin, can, dumpster (container for rubbish or waste)

Declension

Derived terms

• Mülltonne
• tonnenschwer

English

Noun

tonne ‎(plural tonnes)

1. A metric unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Symbol: t
2. (colloquial, darts) A score of 100.

Usage notes

1. A tonne (about 2204.6 pounds) is not exactly the same as a long ton (2240 pounds). Because "ton" and "tonne" usually have the same pronunciation, the phrase "metric ton" is frequently used for "tonne" where disambiguation is required.
2. In the 1970s the British steel industry promoted the pronunciation /ˈtʌni/ to help avoid confusion. The pronunciation /tɒn/ has also been used for the same reason.
   • 1971. Transactions of the Royal Institute of Naval Arcihtects, page 215, volume 113, 1971

     The metric ton or 'tonne' is accepted as a synonym for the megagramme, and this form Is to be preferred on the grounds of brevity and familiarity in the industry. It may be as well to use the pronunciation 'tunnie' until the risk of confusion with the old ton has passed.

   • 1972, Which, May 1972

     The British Steel Corporation, going metric but realising the possible confusion between a ton and a tonne (1,000 kilograms) has directed its staff to pronounce ‘tonne’ ‘tunnie’.

   • 2002, Richard Chapman, Physics for Geologists, page 138, CRC Press, 2002 ISBN 0415288053

     The tonne rhymes with con (perhaps not in North America!) to distinguish it from the non-SI unit of weight, the ton rhyming with bun.

Synonyms

• metric ton
• megagram

Translations

Anagrams

• nonet
• tenno, Tenno
• tenon

Finnish

Etymology

The sublative of tuo.

Adverb

tonne

1. (colloquial, of movement) there (when the speaker points at the place):

   Me mentiin tonne. (cf. tuolla)

   We went there.

See also

• tuonne

Anagrams

• neton, onnet

French

Etymology

From Old French, probably from a Germanic source cognate with English tun. Sense developed in 17th c. from the container to the weight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔn/

Noun

tonne f ‎(plural tonnes)

1. tonne, metric ton
2. ton

Verb

tonne

1. first-person singular present indicative of tonner
2. third-person singular present indicative of tonner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tonner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tonner
5. second-person singular imperative of tonner

Woccon

Etymology

Compare Catawba nepe(ⁿ), nəpe(ⁿ), nepaⁿ, dəpe(ⁿ), dapa(ⁿ), dəpən, dube. Compare also noponne, which features in the word for "ten". Two Proto-Siouan roots for "one" can be reconstructed: Proto-Siouan-Catawban *nǫ(ːsa), rǫ(ːsa) (apparently whence this word) and *wįyą, each one found in one branch and almost entirely missing from the other. (*nǫ is importantly also found in Quapaw hi nǫxtį "once, one time", where -xtį is the morpheme denoting "_ times".)^[1]

Numeral

tonne

1. one

References

• A Vocabulary of Woccon (ISBN 1889758000), extracted from A New Voyage to Carolina by John Lawson

1. ↑ Robert Rankin, A Relic of Proto-Siouan *rǫ/nǫ "one" in Mississippi Valley Siouan