#FolkEtymology claimed that since highways were infested with robbers, reaching #Pääsküla (lit. ‘escape/salvation village’) meant safety. Also one of the thousand-odd #hawkweeds, this one known variously as #PääskülaKarutubakas (bear’s tobacco), or #ZiziHunditubakas (zizi wolf’s tobacco),
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View from the NE end of Hallivanamehe towards the Pärnu maantee cadastral unit on which ARS Kunstilinnak is located, with not a curve in sight! According to Tallinn street-naming regs, if the street is a humanly-recognizable single unit (which these 2 are), it should not have two different names.

View from the end of probably Pärnu maantee (lots of disagreement as to exact location of Hallivanamehe with respect to Pärnu maantee) past the ARS Kunstilinnak towards Hallivanamehe.

employees at the ARS ceramics workshop and #Hallivanamehed a #nickname given them, perhaps by the relatively cleaner #Kalev chocolate factory workers in the #Kohila plant on the other side of #Parnu mnt.
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
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This is super folk etymology levels right now, in that I'm going off of vibes right now, but I feel like 好吃 "hao chi" from Mandarin informed Japanese 美味しい .
Those aren't ordinary readings of those characters (outside of "oishii") in Japanese that I know of.
#folketymology #好吃 #美味しい

View of buildings in Hobusepea, Tallinn.

View of iconic building in Hobusepea, Tallinn.

View of same iconic building's bas relief plaque in Hobusepea, Tallinn, indicating its construction credentials from 1908-09.

Perdekoper (horse-buyer, -trader, cf. MLG köpen, to trade, and mod. Ger. kaufen, to buy). Needless to say, sometime later the kop part of the word was thought to be German Kopf, head (earliest record 1873), Pferdekopfstraße, and the rest is history.
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
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°And that is totally possible to change, regardless of kings and academies and publishers and proofreaders.^ We just have to get enough of us to agree. #FolkEtymology

#Kassisaba (Kassisaba) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
Lit. cat’s tail. The name of the district is often accused of coming from a German military term #Katze for an elevated #bastion (none found) , and the road leading from it as its tail (Ger. #Schwanz, which also
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
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