Peoleo (Peoleo)

Oriole (Oriolus oriolus) a bright yellow (male) or drabber greenish (female) migratory bird, in Estonia from mid-May to mid-August, as reflected in its older Ger. name Pfingstvogel (Pentecost bird) for its usually arriving in May. Its Eng. name is said to come from either its serendipitously similarly-sounding song ‘or-iii-ole’ or from its color called aureolus (golden) until Thomas Aquinas’s one-time teacher, the polymath Aristotelian Albertus Magnus, decided that oriolus was good enough. And so it is. It’s Estonian name is uncertain, probably a rhyming duplication of peo, poss. from Pidu or peo:peo (hand, palm), but given is multiple synonyms ranging from piho (old spelling), through tepoteo, kikuviu, peebupiu (all prob. just onomatopœa), kräunuja kull (hawk that goes ‘kräun’?), hommikumaa täht (star of the east) to kuuseööbik (spruce nightingale), probably just because it’s a cute name for a cute bird.