Flag of Estonia fluttering in the wind.

#Võidu (Võit)
#Victory, success, triumph, achievement... Very popular street name! There is a #puiestik in #Rahumae; a põik (formerly #Lõhmuse) in #Männiku; a #tänav in...
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Victory Day (Võidupüha) in Estonia is 23/06, but let's get the year off to a good start!

#Lõhmuse (Lõhmus)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
#Linden, lime tree. The English name was once #lind, the #en (ding) added to create the #adjective (as e.g. in #wood > #wooden, etc.), and mutating over time to become a #noun again. Alternative / Earlier name for #pärn (see #Pärnade). Odd word,
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#Kontpuu (Kontpuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
#Dogwood, dogberry, #CornusSpp. Renaming of the north, eastern or ‘top right’ end of #Lõhmuse põik in 2016. Tree/shrub group, see #Läätspuu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Tree #Puu

#Lodjapuu (Lodjapuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Aka harilik lodjapuu, #õispuu (blossom tree), #hullukoeramarjapuu (lit. crazy dog berry tree), etc., #guelder rose, water elder, snowball tree, European cranberrybush, cramp bark, etc., #ViburnumOpulus. Tree/shrub group, see #Lõhmuse.

#Plants #Taimed

#Kõivu (Kõiv)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Alt., dialect and/or #Võro term for #Kase (cf. koivu in Finnish, kõuv in Livonian, and koiv in Veps). Counterpart in antiquity to #Lõhmuse. Variants include #arukõiv (see #Arukaskede); #marokõiv (see #Kase), and #sookõiv (see #Sookaskede).
#Trees #Puud

#Läätspuu (Läätspuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Caragana, an #evergreen flowering plant from eastern #Europe and #Asia. Renaming of the south, eastern or ‘bottom right’ end of #Lõhmuse [põik] in 2016. Tree/shrub group, see #Pukspuu and #Näsiniine.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Niine.

View along Niine, Tallinn, from the Põhja puiestee direction.

Impressive, stone-buiilt mansion or, more likely, ±80(?) year-old administrative building in Niine, Tallinn.

Front of a brown-painted, one-floor (plus basement) wooden house with elaborate wooden decorative motifs on the porch and iron railings in Niine, Tallinn.

#Niine (Niin)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Bast, bass, phloem, the inner bark of lime trees, see #Lõhmuse.
#Trees #Puud
#Nature #Loodus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Niine on it.

Large old three-storey house in Niine, Tallinn.

Modern, or very modernized, five-storey house in Niine, Tallinn.

View along Niine, Tallinn, from Põhja puiestee.

#Niine (Niin)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Bast, bass, phloem, the inner bark of lime trees, see #Lõhmuse.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trees #Puud

#Niine (Niin)
Bast, bass, phloem, the inner bark of lime trees, see #Lõhmuse.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#Trees #Puud
#EstonianFootwearFashion #EestiJalatsiteMood