Names
Terase (Teras)
Steel; figuratively, a knife. One of a metals street group. See Tina. Earliest records (1880) give a muddled bundle of German, Russian and Estonian names Tschortowstraße, Чортова / Чертова (Chortova / Chertova) and Tšortovi / Tschortovi, which all seem to indicate “devil’s street”, but was probably a misspelling of the name of an inn that had been there since the 18th C. Either way, street renamed in 1880 as Большая Епинатьевская ул. (Great Epinatiev street) after Russian businessman Алексей Дмитриевич Епинатьев, Alexei Dimitrivitch Epinatiev (1819-1878), founder of Gusli (a couple of hundred meters away as the balalaika sounds [so probably not heavy metal then], see Narva); family made hereditary honorary citizens for services to cultural education in 1872.
Tervise (Tervis)
Health, constitution. An odd name to give a street running alongside two cemeteries, but why not? Health is not always good… The Tallinna Lastehaigla (Tallinn Children’s Hospital, formerly the Balti Raudtee Eesti Raudteekonna Haigla, Balto-Estonian railway association hospital) is at No.28.
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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.
