Names
Tuki (Tukk)
Firebrand, piece of smoldering wood (not to be confused with tukk:tuka, tuft of hair, bang [US], forelock, or tukk:tuku, nap, forty winks, or tükk:tüki, piece, lump, chunk, etc. Part of a fire, fire-making and fireplace group, see Tulekivi. Also part of a land-clearing group of streets, see also Aedvere. Tukk:tuki is also a slang term for pistol, something else you fire, but see Hiiu-Suurtüki.
Tüki (Tükk)
Piece, bit, lump, fragment, clod, etc., but also in this particular instance, cannon. Short-lived (July to Dec. 1987) name of Hiiu-Suurtüki. Anagram of Küti.
Tulbi (Tulp)
Tulip, Tulipa spp. In the chapter on ‘Tulipomania’ in 17th‑C Holland, Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds relates the story of a sailor who casually pocketed an ‘onion’ he saw lying about to go with his lunch. When, half a herring later, he was eventually discovered, it turned out he’d eaten a tulip bulb valued, at the bubbling rates, of about 25 oxen or 30 tons of butter. Probably far better for his cholesterol level. One of the Lilleküla flower street-name group. See Tulika.
