#Ida (Ida)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
East, eastern, easterly. Also #oost or "ost among sailors. See also #Idakaare. Related to #idanema, to sprout or germinate, or to the #Khanty prefix et-, to appear, rise or advance. See particularly #Edela and #Loode.
#CompassPoints #KompassiSuunad
known variously as Town of #Troy, City or Ruins of #Jerusalem, Mount Jerusalem, Virgin’s Dance or Giant’s Garden. Interestingly, its axis of symmetry is NW-SE, with its ‘entrance’ at the NW (see #Loode)... #Labyrinths of this nature seem to have been first recorded by #KarlErnstVonBaer
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Known briefly as #Auna from 1940-1941. See also #Ida. With typical #Tallinn aplomb, street pointing due south-east (except for one 36.44 m stretch which does, admittedly, point south). But see #Loode, which may explain everything. Or not.
#CompassPoints #KompassiSuunad
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Alleyway between these two buildings and the one to their left; designated as 'Loode põik' off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Similar view of the alleyway between these two buildings and the one to their left; designated as 'Loode põik' off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Builder's barrier in front of entrance to 'Loode põik', off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Second house in the 'alley' representing 'Loode põik', off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
#Loode põik (Loe)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
When is a põik not a põik?
Likely to end up as #Ahju, a private alley with only a couple of houses. For now (2025), gated only by a builder's barrier. Se.e also #Loode
#Loode & #Tina, so almost certainly pewter too), while geter, ‘pourer’ or founder, from PIE *ĝheu- also gives us English ‘gut’ and mod. Ger. gießen, to pour (but see #Keldrimäe). The subsequent building of fortifications – bastions, ravelins and counterguards – buried the street for a couple of
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Perhaps not, previously called #Loode... and, briefly, 1940-1941, #Loo (not what you think, get your mind out of the gutter...). The explanation is probably much simpler anyway: a #wind from this direction may well bring rain. See also #Põhja.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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