Talviku (Talvik)

1) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, a member of the bunting family. Nominative often talvike, also known (in earlier times perhaps) in vernacular or dialect forms as jõhviklind, (cranberry bird); kadakasass (the parent term kadakasakslane or ‘Juniper German’ indicated an Estonian mimicking higher social-status Germans [see Dominiiklaste, Nurmenuku and Uus-Kalamaja]; from MLG Katesaße – Kate, peasant farmer’s or day-laborer’s hut or cottage + Saße, residence – for cottager or slum- or hovel-dweller); kaerasööja (oat-eater); kollane varblane (yellow sparrow); külmatihane (cold tit); talitsiitsitaja or tsiitsilind (tali=winter, but where the tsiitsi comes from is anybody’s business: unlikely to be from Frisian tsiis for cheese but poss. just reflecting the birdcall). Talvik:talviku is ‘umbellate wintergreen’, Chimaphila umbellata, and, for non-hibernating farmers of the past, a cow born in winter. Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Tedre.