Alternatiivseid etümoloogiaid XII. pandur, plehku (pistma), sibi, tait, trett, tönk, tüse, tüss, vehkat (tegema)
Alternative etymologies XII. pandur, plehku (pistma), sibi, tait, trett, tönk, tüse, tüss, vehkat (tegema)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents new or refined etymological interpretations of the words pandur ‘sump’, plehku (as in plehku pistma) ‘to flee’, sibi ‘night-soil carrier; flayer, executioner’, tait ‘coot’, trett ‘quantity, layer; course; trouble’, tönk ‘brick-kiln’, tüse ‘thick; substantial’, tüss ‘homespun cloth’, and vehkat (tegema) ‘to run away (secretly)’.pandur : panduri ~ pandor : pandori ‘sump, boat’ is most likely a borrowing from a Finnish lexical family including pantero, panturi ‘storage place for animal feed’, among others.plehku adv. ‘away, into flight, on the run’ (as in plehku panema, plehku pistma ‘to flee’), is a secondary stem variant of the verb (p)lehtima and related forms ‘to plait, to braid’, which is a Germanic loan (cf. Swedish fläta < vlechten, German flechten ‘to plait, braid’).sibi ‘night-soil carrier; flayer, executioner’ is presumably a borrowing from a Russian lexical family including e.g. ши́беник ‘hanged man; scoundrel’ and ши́беница ‘gallows, pillory’.tait : taida ‘coot (Fulica atra)’ has been considered a loan from the Swedish bird name tejst, which is unlikely. Instead, it is compared here with Estonian Swedish forms tait ‘to blow a horn; (herdsman’s) horn’.trett : treti (colloquial) ‘quantity, layer; course; trouble’, has been regarded as a borrowing from Russian треть ‘one third’, which is questionable. A multiple-source borrowing is proposed. trett ‘quantity, layer’, is a Russian loan, assuming a semantic shift ‘one third of something’ → ‘a portion of any size’. trett ‘course, step’ is presumably a German loan (cf. Estonian dialectal tredt ‘step, gait, path’, German treten ‘to step’). trett ‘trouble’ is likely borrowed from a Russian dialectal form стре́та ‘conflict, opposition’.tönk : töngi ~ tönga, tõnk : tõngi ‘brick-kiln’, is a deverbal noun derived from a descriptive onomatopoetic verb tönkima / tõnkima ‘to dig laboriously’.tüse : tüseda ‘stout; thick; substantial’, is an Estonian-Finnish adjectival stem rather than a Russian loan (cf. Finnish dialectal tysevä ‘strong, solid’, tysky ‘strength’, tyskä ‘thick’).tüss : tüssi ~ tüssa ‘homespun cloth’, is a borrowing from the Swedish compound tuskaft (< tu ‘two’ + skaft ‘heddle’) ‘plain weave with two heddles’.vehkat (as in vehkat tegema ‘to run away secretly’) is derived from the same stem as the verb vehkima ‘to move quickly, walk briskly’, which is a secondary stem variant of the Germanic loan vehtima, vehtlema ‘to fence’.

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