Home › Words › T › tannatannatanna means an island of Tafea, Vanuatu.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tanna ranks #16,007 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyNamed by British explorer James Cook in 1774, said to be from Kwamera tana (“earth”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəq (“earth, soil”).nameAn island of Tafea, Vanuatu.nounAny of the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishna, from approximately 10–220 CE.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).