#Sanglepa (Sanglepp)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Aka must lepp or #mustlepp (black alder), #emalepp (mother alder), #seatamm (pig oak), black, European or common alder, #AlnusGlutinosa. 3% of Estonian stands consist of this..
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#Lehise (Lehis)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Larch. Two species introduced to #Estonia: #EuroopaLehis, the European larch, #LarixDecidua; and #VeneLehis, the Siberian or Russian larch, #LSibirica syn. L. russica. Popular source of food for the famous #ProcessionaryCaterpillar,
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#ViimneReliikvia, The Last Relic, by #GrigoriKromanov (1969). The #Estonian present-day first name #Piret derives from #Birgitta/#Pirita. One of #Tallinn’s 8 Districts (Linnaosad). It includes the following #Asumid (Sub-districts): Iru, #Kloostrimetsa, #Kose, #Laiaküla, #Lepiku, #Maarjamäe,
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#Pirita (Pirita) #Linnaosa #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kesklinn #Maarjamäe #Pirita #Kadriorg
xAfter Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bridget of Sweden, 1303-1373. The Brigittine sisters first arrived in Estonia in 1412, five years after its founding. Host to the annual Birgitta Music Festival,
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#Lepa (Lepp)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kesklinn #Maarjamäe #Kadriorg
#Alder (also, when genitive #leppa, fish or seal blood; or a dialect term for a reddish-brown color). #Lepp is thought to be (derived from?) a primitive word designating #red. The term today is #Punane or #puna in compound words,
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#Tuulenurga (Tuulenurk)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#WindyCorner, athough the #nurk:nurga ending could also refer to a #paddock. Estonification of the earlier #Windeck summer house, streetname replacing the western strip of #Kose in (what seems to be called, perhaps informally)
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#Tohu (1] Toht; 2] Tohk; 3] Tohu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
1] #BirchBark; 2] Stern of small boat; and 3] Mist, haze. The earliest-known written document in #FinnoUgric – #Tohtkiri (birch bark letter) No.292 – was carved on birch bark in the first half of the 13th C in a dialect of the
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#Kuslapuu (Kuslapuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Honeysuckle, woodbine, #LoniceraSpp. The name may reflect its N European habitat preference of spruce forests (see #Kuuse), with a shortening of ‘uu’ to ‘u’ and where the -la ending may be a contraction of ‘salu’, spruce-grove ‘tree’ (see Hiiela).
#Sarapuu (Sarapuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#HarilikSarapuu, common hazel, #CorylusAvellana. #Turkey is the world’s No.1 country for #hazelnuts: some 650,000 tonnes per year, roughly 75% of world production, and about 10% of all this goes into Nutella.
#Vegetable #Taimne
#Tree #Puu
#Food #Toit
#Tamme (Tamm)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Oak. harilik tamm (common oak), aka #hiiepuu (sacred oak), #talitamm (winter oak), #suvitamm (summer oak), pedunculate or English oak, #QuercusRobur (which gives us the word ‘robust’). See also #Tõru. Although the oldest oaks in Tallinn (#Kadrioru)
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#Künnapuu (Künnapuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Called #European white or fluttering elm by the #Brits and #Russian elm by the #Americans, #UlmusLaevis.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Tree #Puu
#Pähkli (Pähkel)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Nut, #hazelnut.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed
#Food #Toit
#Paju (Paju)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Willow, #withy. The willow has two main common names separating them in Estonian, although they’re both #Salix: #paju and #remmelga. Lots of them: halapaju, violet willow, #SalixAcutifolia; hanepaju, creeping willow, #SRepens;
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#Kase (Kask)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe #Kose #Varsaallika
Birch. Various species: Arukaskede; madal kask, aka marokõiv (see Kõivu) or kassi pässad (“cat’s thumbs” [misnomer for digital pads, the spongy bits?] maybe), no Eng. name, #BetulaHumilis; vaevakask, dwarf birch, #BNana; and the Sookaskede.
#Nulu (Nulg)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Aka #SiberiNulg, Siberian fir, Abies sibirica. The word #nulg is a loan word calqued on #nulγo, from the #Cheremis, aka #Mari, language by #Aaviku in the early 20th C, although what they called it before remains obscure. Maybe they just didn’t.
#Trees #Puud
#Saare (Saar)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#Island (mainly). Also #ash-tree, or raised part of bog or grove in swamp. Here, in the midst of #Paju, #Lepa, #Kase, etc., certainly the ash. See #Saarepuu.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Geography #Geograafia
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Lepa (Lepp)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kesklinn #Maarjamäe #Kadriorg
Alder (also, when genitive #leppa, fish or seal blood; or a dialect term for a reddish-brown color). #Lepp is thought to be (derived from?) a primitive word designating #red. The term today is #Punane or #puna in compound words,
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#Urva (Urb)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Catkin, a tube-like cluster of flowers, usually but not always male, found on various plants: alder, birch, hazel, mulberry, oak, poplar, willow, etc.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets#TallinnaTänavad
#Nature#Loodus
#Plants#Taimed
#Kose (Kosk) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe #Varsaallika #Kose #KoseKallaste
Waterfall, rapids, after the same on a bend on the Pirita river.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Rivers #Jõed
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#Tõru (Tõru)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Another name for acorn (see #Tammetõru). Named after the oak trees in the neighborhood. See also #Tamme.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Rummu (Rumm)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita #Maarjamäe #Kose
1) Hub, wheel-hub, center; 2) Nave. Named after nearby Rummu Restaurant, destroyed during the war. Also name of former Soviet-epoch prison now half-submerged in a one-time quarry now known as the ‘Blue Lagoon’.
#Haljas (Adj.)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe #Kose
Green, verdant; shining. Usually referring to nature. #Haljasalad, on the other hand, is not lettuce but the green spaces of a town. Interestingly, cutting weapons, such as swords, can also be called
#Adjectives #Omadussõnad
#Colors #Värvid
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Tarja (Tari)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Wickerwork, basketwork, something made of wicker (fish-drying stand, bottom of sled, wattled stable partition...), bead embroidery at edge of skirt; bundle; bunch (of grapes).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Handicrafts #Käsitöö
#GrigoryOrlov of #OrlovDiamond fame, bought the property and baptized it with its present name after his wife,#MariaYegorovna, daughter of one of the copious Count #Tolstoys, and/or their daughter, also named #Maria. Its #Estonian name – #Maarjamäe – came into usage in the 1930s.
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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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Unser Seminar #Digitalisierung und #Sicherheitspolitik geht weiter in 🇪🇪: Zunächst mit einem Besuch am Denkmal für die Opfer des Kommunismus in #Maarjamäe
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