Tina (Tina)

Tricky word, ranging from (or commonly used to mean) ‘tin’ through ‘pewter’ to ‘lead’. KNAB lists the street as Свинцовая (lead) for 1900, followed by Bleistraße (lead) in 1907, then Tina in 1908. Periodic elements 50 & 82 are, respectively, tin (Eng.), tina (Est.) & Zinn (Ger.) and lead, plii & Blei, so not the same. While EES correctly identfies tina as ‘tin’ (Sn: stannum) and plii as ‘lead’ (Pb, callipygia-alert: plumbum), it also adds ‘lead’ to ‘tin’. Various neighboring FU languages also hover between ‘tin’ and ‘lead’. And one official Tallinn website which will remain nameless once translated tina as pewter, where tinasulam, ‘tin alloy’, would be better. ÕS gives plii as a possible acception for tina along with adages like Jalad on tina täis (lit. ‘the legs are full of tin’ which, interestingly enough, is close to British-English ‘my legs feel like lead’), but adds argikeelne: in common parlance. Well, we’re not commonly parlancing here, one of a metals street group, so Tina is Tin. See Vase.