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From пе́ночка(pénočka, “leaf warbler”) + тенько́вка(tenʹkóvka, “chiffchaff”). The latter word is said to arise from тень-тинь-тянь-тень(tenʹ-tinʹ-tjanʹ-tenʹ), the sound of falling drops of rain, which its song slightly resembles.[1]
^ Г. Дементьев (G. Dementyev), Н. Гладков (N. Gladkov) (1953) Птицы Советского Союза [Birds of the Soviet Union], volume 6, Советская наука, pages 153–162
