Tanım
•The god of the forest. · a male given name · a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Etimoloji
According to Saarikivi (2022), from tavata (dialectally also "to catch, reach") + -io, and thus as a name for a god of the hunt. The name has also been connected with Estonian taba (“padlock”) and Livonian tabā (“padlock”) (both connected with respective cognates of tavata), hinting at a theoretical noun *tapa (“trap”) (not attested in Finnish), which could have served as the direct etymon.…