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Taevastiiva (taevastiib)
Butterflies of the Lycaenidae family (lit. heaven‑, celestial‑ or sky‑wing, see Taevakivi and Tiiva), of which 2 species are common in Estonia: harilik taevastiib, the Amanda’s blue, Polyommatus amandus, whose caterpillars secrete a sugary substance that attracts ants and thus puts predators off; and ristikheina-taevastiib, the common blue, P. icarus; and 2 are rare, with 1 observation per wing over the past 80-odd years: ere-taevastiib, the Adonis blue, Lysandra bellargus, which is in decline elsewhere too: in Britain their numbers have dropped by over 90% since 1950; and rohekas taevastiib, the chalkhill blue, L. coridon, which is univoltine, a word you can look up yourself. Taevas (sky) is a loan from Baltic, cf. Dievas and Dievs, ‘God’ in Lithuanian and Latvian and hence related to Latin deus, Greek Zeus, ‘Scandinavian’ Týr, and French dieu.
Tähe (Täht)
1) Star; 2) Letter. Street known as Romanovi after a neighboring dynasty (1613-1917) until 1922. Its switch to stellar symbolism may not be unrelated to the changing political fortunes of the times, a message hammered home by its renaming as Vasara from 1940-1941.
Tähesaju (Tähesadu)
Meteorite shower (lit. starfall). Last of the D&D group as it peters out into the more, shall we say, ‘bricks and mortar’ streets of Kärberi K. and co. See Arbu. Named, like Taevakivi, after local traces of 20-25K year old meteorite impact.
Tähetorni (Tähetorn)
Observatory (lit. star tower). After the Tallinn Observatory, former watch tower on the Glehni N.v. estate. Tallinn’s previous observatory, the cupola of which can still be seen, was at Estonia 15.
