Names
Tulva (Tulv)
Overflow, overspill, flood. More or less opposite Ojaveere. Road scheduled (2018), but still not yet built (2024Q4).
Tungla (Tungal)
1) Firebrand (cf. Icelandic and Old Norse tungl, moon); 2) Smut, blight, rust (plant mold or fungus). But neither one nor the other. Originally Sõpruse (1952-58), street renamed some 30 years after the Taara and Vanemuise group surrounding it, and a search in Kalevipoeg reveals it to be a mythical kingdom whose son and heir comes to press his suit on Linda but, like his four predecessors, gets taken to the cleaners. Also a well-known song by Kuhlbarsi F. and Hermanni K.A., Kungla rahvas (people of Kungla). Derived from Swedish kungliga (royal, kingly) and thought to be calqued on Gotland.
Tupsi (Tups)
Small clump of bushes.Former farm name. Wiedemann gives both tupsu and tupsi. Word possibly resembling and/or copying and/or lending to tups:tupsu, something soft and round, like a tuft, or a flock, pill or bob on wool or other fabric, or decorative, like a tassel or pompom. Estonia imported the BBC2’s ghastly example of infantile dementia as Teletupsud. Also type of nicotine-free Swedish-style snuff.
Turba (Turvas)
Peat. Former name of the Kurepõllu Sub-district it lives in.
Turbasambla (Turbasammal)
Sphagnum moss, lit. peat moss. With 37 species including the Baltic, red, soft, dull (as in corners), northern and so on and so forth. See also Harusambla.
Türi (Türi)
Town in Järvamaa. Street running parallel to the railway track at Tallinn-Väike, and terminus of the group of streets named for stations on the Tallinn-Türi Kitsarööpa line.
