Tupsi (Tups)
Small clump of bushes.Former farm name. Wiedemann gives both tupsu and tupsi. Word possibly resembling and/or copying and/or lending to tups:tupsu, something soft and round, like a tuft, or a flock, pill or bob on wool or other fabric, or decorative, like a tassel or pompom. Estonia imported the BBC2’s ghastly example of infantile dementia as Teletupsud. Also type of nicotine-free Swedish-style snuff.
Turba (Turvas)
Peat. Former name of the Kurepõllu Sub-district it lives in.
Turbasambla (Turbasammal)
Sphagnum moss, lit. peat moss. With 37 species including the Baltic, red, soft, dull (as in corners), northern and so on and so forth. See also Harusambla.
Turvise (Turvis)
Armour, corselet, breastplate, harness and, for the modern-day horseless road warrior, retreaded winter tyre. Close to Maleva and Uus-Maleva, and hence member of a mini military mêlée. See Amburi.