Tihase (Tihane)

Tit. Breeding in Estonia:

• Kukkurtihane, Eurasian penduline tit (which must surely raise the occasional eyebrow), Remiz pendulinus
• Lasuurtihane, azure tit, Parus cyanus
• Musttihane, coal tit, P. ater
• Põhjatihane, willow tit, P. montanus
• Rasvatihane, great tit, P. major
• Sabatihane, long-tailed tit otherwise known around the UK as bum-towel, creak-mouse, jack-in-a-bottle, long tom, miller’s thumb and poke-pudding, Aegithalos caudatus
• Salutihane aka sootihane, marsh tit, P. palustris
• Sinitihane, blue tit, P. caeruleus
• Taigatihane, siberian tit, P. cinctus
• Tutt-tihane, crested tit, P. cristatus.

Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Tiiva.

Tiiu (Tiiu)

A woman’s name, popular in the 1920s & 30s. Street co-created with its crossroad Pille in 2009, possibly influenced by Õilme. Perhaps a diminutive of tihane (see Tihase), or perhaps from Dorothea (Greek Δωροθέα) meaning ‘God’s Gift’.

Poordi (Poord)

Board, side of a ship, as in starboard (tüürpoord, steering, helm or rudder side) and larboard (pakpoord, prob. from German Backbord, quite possibly influenced by packen in the sense of ‘to stow’ (verstauen), as suggested for English with OE bæcbord, lit. ‘back board’ (as sitting facing the steering side, starboard, Steuerbord would leave this to your back), evolving into ladde-borde (‘loading side’?) before becoming ‘larboard’ in the 16^th C. Given the confusion, the British Admiralty changed it to ‘port’ in 1844. Semordnilap, for clients of Canadian meds, of ‘I droop’. See also Parda.

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