Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

7 months ago

Садовая ул. (1926-59), with 2 temporary renamings as ~~Ploomi (1940-41) and #Ale (1959-60), see #Alemaa.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Sport #Spordid
#Leisure #VabaAeg
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

8 months ago

#Mai (Mai)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
May (month). Originally #Apteegi (till 1959) and, for some obscure reason, renamed as #Ale (see #Alemaa) from 1940-1941.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Season #Hooaeg

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

11 months ago

#Alemaa (Alemaa)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva
*Ale* (not the beer) is one of Estonia’s various slash-and-burn terms for a plot of cleared, burnt land ready for planting. Other dialect words for the same or very similar include...
#SlashAndBurn #Aletegemine
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

#Sõõru (Sõõrd)
Synonym, or near as dammit, of #ale (see #Alemaa), #assart (i.e. land cleared and burned for cultivation) or, in some dialects, a small fenced meadow, often a clearing, prior to assarting. Part of a land-clearing group of streets,...
#TallinnaTänavad #Odonymy
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

Ten years down the road, it will be interesting to see how embarrassingly #wrong I may be... Given its belonging to a land-clearing street-name group (see #Alemaa), I suspect they’re trying to give it this more ‘ancient’ meaning*.
#Tallinn #Sõnastik #Ajalugu
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