The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
TUNNY
tuna, tunny
(noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
tuna, tuna fish, tunny
(noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tunny (plural tunnies)
(dated) Tuna.
Anagrams
• nunty
Source: Wiktionary
Tun"ny, n.; pl. Tunnies. Etym: [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse. [Written also thynny.]
Note: The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see Albicore), are related species of smaller size.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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