köken: With irregular t- (as in tausend) and widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- from Middle High German dāhen, tāhen, inflected form of dāhe, tāhe, from Old High German thāha, dāha, tāha, from Proto-Germanic *þanhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), related to *þinhtaz (“dense, tight”). Cognate with Old English þō, Old Norse þá, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍉 (þāhō). The oldest spelling is Toh(e)n,…
metric ton (a unit of mass equal to exactly 1000 kg) · English or American ton (a unit of mass equivalent to about 1016 or 907 kg respectively) · tonelada, Spanish ton (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 920 kg)
çekim: çoğul toneladas
köken: From tonel (“tun”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). In reference to the English unit, calqued from English ton. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese tonelada.
tone; pitch (property of sound determined by the frequency) · tone (shade or quality of a colour) · tone (manner in which speech or writing is expressed)
çekim: çoğul tons
eş: segunda
köken: Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tonus (and influenced by som; compare the Spanish ton, variant of the standard tono, which underwent a similar change, influenced by son, respectively), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Cf. also trom, a possible doublet.