The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromتُونِس
- English todayTunis
Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are: * Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment". * Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.