about 1.8 mm / year over the past 500 years) we may even see a #mountain one day (according to #Estonian conditions [see #Mäe], in about 83,000 years)...
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Last full posting here on Bluesky: 99% of Tallinn Streets dot com articles have been done and it's time to start again!
Mustamäe (Mustamägi) #Linnaosa #Asum
#BlackHill, black mountain. Although use of the word ‘mountain’ is questionable (see #Mäe for discussion). Most capital cities have buildings taller than Estonia’s mountains. Right or wrong, the nominative #Mustamägi is sometimes heard. Even saying
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long and wiggly (pulease...) it’s an #uss, so that includes snakes and worms. If they want to be really nice, they specify the soggier version by calling it #vihmauss or rain worm. See #Mäe for discussion, where the sense of secure location seems to be most apposite.
#History #Ajalugu
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#Mäekalda (Mäekallas)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
#UpperSlope, upper bankside. See also #Mäe. Street home to the #KUMU, built in more or less the same shape as a former newtown, in ruins by 1876, for which they obviously provide two totally different addresses: #Weizenbergi 34 and #Valge 1…
#Mäevälja (Mäeväli)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mäeküla
Hill fields. See #Välja, but see also #Mäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Keldrimäe (Keldrimägi) #Asum
#CellarHill, named after a large concrete ‘cellar’ (underground storage facility?) in the neighborhood (see #Mäe for discussion). Known formerly as #Israelgasse (1893) plus variants Iisraeli (1921), #Израильская ул (1907), but mainly #Israeli (1885-1954),
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#Keldrimäe (Keldrimägi) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
#CellarHill, named after a large concrete ‘cellar’ (underground storage facility?) in the neighborhood (see #Mäe for discussion). Known formerly as #Israelgasse (1893) plus variants #Iisraeli (1921), #Израильская ул (1907), but mainly
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municipal #jiggerypokery and, realizing that a name such as #Mäe was as far from topographically possible and simply naming it the opposite of another former name had a fair probability of being vaguely accurate?
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Kuiv (Adj.)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Dry – Kuival olema: to be on the rocks. Odd history: in 1926, the street was called #Mäe, switching temporarily to #Sula, meaning molten, thawed, soft or liquid (as in #sularaha, cash) in 1940-41. But why from ‘mountain’ to ‘dry’? Was it
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#Vahtramäe (Vahtramägi)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
Maple mountain. It’s flat... See #Mäe for discussion.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#AlpineStreets #Mägitänavad
Jääraku (Jäärak)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Ravine. Said to be for its location under the precipitous slope of #Lasnamäe. If you see it, let me know. See #Mäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Topography #Topograafia
#Sõstramäe (Sõstramägi) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Mooni
Former farm name: lit. currant homestead (see #Mäe for discussion).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Neemiku (Neemik)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Paevälja #Paekalda
Small cape. Nowhere near a cape, large, small or #Transylvanian, but appropriately near #Mäe, nowhere near a #mountain…
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Mäeküla (Mäeküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mäeküla
Village (lit. upper village) and lake in Viljandimaa, and village in almost every other county too. See also #Mäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#VillageNames #KülaNimed
Ghost of a Tallinn streetsign displaying, presumably, the name Liivamäe, evidence, if any were needed, that in matters of bonding, lasting attachments or addictions, a screw beats glue any day.
View along the Lastekodu end of Liivamäe, Tallinn, with garages to the left and apartments to the right.
Garden gnome, fluffy-monster style, in Liivamäe, Tallinn.
Very large, eight-or-nine-high block of apartments in Liivamäe, Tallinn.
##Liivamäe (Liivamägi)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
Sandy hill, mountain. Earliest record gives #German #AufDemSande and #Russian #НаПескахъ (1881), with #Estonian #LiivaMäel and #LiivaPeal (1885), all meaning ‘on the sands’. See #Mäe for discussion.
#Sand #Liiv
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Sculpture of lubricitous desire in a garden in Tõnismägi, Tallinn.
St Anthony struggling to control his lubricitous desires, part of the Isenheim Altarpiece by Grünewald (1512–1516). Do not try this at home.
Multifunctional sex toy and post-coital smoke in Tõnismägi, Tallinn. (Actually, a carving of a man's head, smoking a pipe, and serving as bird box)
Since we're in the gutter, image of tumble-down lockups or lean-to's in Tõnismägi, Tallinn.
another #cloven-footed character of equally #unkosher qualities. See #Mäe for discussion (of hills, not pigs). Not to be confused with #TõnisMägi (also hills, not pigs) (b. 1948), singer & pop musician.
#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
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#Maarjamäe (Maarjamägi) #Asum
Mary’s mount (see #Mäe for discussion). And no jokes please. Name of summer estate once known as Strietberg or #Streitberg (battle of the bulge) after, legend has it, a vigorous disagreement between the #Blackheads...
#Tallinn#Kesklinn#Kadriorg
#ManorHouses#Mõisad
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#Põllumäe (Põllumägi)
Hill homestead (see #Mäe for discussion). Another farm name. See also #Taludevahe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Mäekõrtsi (Mäekõrts)
Hill tavern, and one of this name did once exist. See also #Mäe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Haabersti
start with ‘D’, or even ‘G’, so the above may perhaps represent an awareness of foreign-ness and corresponding attempt to reproduce it and make it sound foreign, as in, e.g., #French "Le Jean’s Shop" where the apostrophe is incorrect but looks #English. See #Mäe for discussion.
#Language #Keel
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#Mäepere (Mäepere)
Mäe family, former farm name. See also #Mäe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
NB: Mäe is quite a key component in Estonian placenames. Article posted one day soon...
#Rannamäe (Rannamägi)
Beach/Shore homestead. Former farm name. See #Mäe for discussion.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
firmest route or more modern usage as a stretch of road somewhat higher than its neighbors. See also #Mäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Äigrumäe (Äigrumägi)
Village about 7 km NE of Tallinn. See #Mäe for discussion.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Künka (Küngas): Mount, small hill, butte, knoll, hummock (see #Mäe). King of the Castle is #künkakuningas.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe #Nõmme
#Everest #MontBlanc #K2 #Akne 😉
#HeadÖöd
long enough for it to become known as Tornimäe Maja (house). In the 19th C, Tornimäe was also the place to go for autopsies. See #Mäe for discussion.
#Medicine #Ravim
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#Mäealuse (Mäealus)
Foot of the mountain, bottom of the hill. Here, the latter. Runs alongside and below #Mäepealse. See also #Mäe.
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Kadaka
#AlpineStreets #Mägitänavad
#Kivimäe (Kivimägi)
Stone mountain. Named, apparently, after the mound of earthworks resulting from building the Tallinn-Keila railway. See #Mäe.
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Odonymy #Odonüümia
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Tondimägi (0)
‘Ghost’ hill. Just a hill – nothing to see here! but see #Tondi. See also #Mäe for discussion.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Priisle
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Onomastics #Onomastika
