Tamme (Tamm)

Oak. harilik tamm (common oak), aka hiiepuu (sacred oak), talitamm (winter oak), suvitamm (summer oak), pedunculate or English oak, Quercus robur (which gives us the word ‘robust’). See also Tõru. Although the oldest oaks in Tallinn (Kadrioru) today are some 350 years old, they are dwarfed by the tuhandeaastane tamm (thousand-year-old oak) that used to grow beside Kopli beach. One hears. But see the Tamme-Lauri oak in Hiidtamme. The similarity of Gaulish tanno, holm oak, to Estonian is fortuitous.