Etymograph

English

Una

Una comes from Irish Úna.

  1. Irishc. 1200–presentÚna
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1590Una

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Irishc. 1200–presentÚna
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1590Una

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto IV: “Who after that he had faire Una lorne, /…”

The story

Anglicized form of Irish Úna.

Every English word from Irish Úna

Another origin of Una

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁weh₂-‘to be/become empty’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁uh₂-nó-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*HuHnás‘empty’reconstructed
  4. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEऊ॒नūná
  5. Prakritmodernऊणūṇa
  6. Hindic. 1500–presentऊनाūnā‘less, lacking, deficient’
  7. EnglishtodayUna

Today it means

name A female given name from Irish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Irish Úna / Una

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