#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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Also part of a land-clearing group of streets, see also #Aedvere. #Tukk:tuki is also a slang term for pistol, something else you fire, but see #HiiuSuurtüki.
#FireRelatedStreetName #TulekahjugaSeotudTänavanimi
#SlashAndBurn #Aletegemine
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#Tulimulla (Tulimuld): Scorched earth. More in the slash-and-burn than military sense, so soil made fertile from the ash washed into the earth. Part of a land-clearing group of streets, see also #Tuki.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#SlashAndBurn #Aletegemine
*Revised version*
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#Tulimulla (Tulimuld)
Scorched earth. More in the slash-and-burn than military sense. Part of a land-clearing group of streets, see also #Tuki. #Tulimuld was also the name of an expat (exile?) #Estonian media/culture magazine from 1950-1991.
#Streetnames #Tänavanimed
#Swidden #Aletegemine
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