#Otse (0)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Direct, straight. A geometrical street-name group. See also #Sirge.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Adjective #Omadussõna
#Geometry #Geomeetria
#Mustjõe (Mustjõgi) #Asum
#Black #river (see #Mustjõgi). Street formerly known as Sarlotte, #Scharlottentali, Scharlottentaler, Шарлоттентальская ул until 1939; district previously named after Charlottentali #mõis (manor house) in #Haabersti.
#Geography #Geograafia
#River #Jõgi
#ManorHouse
#Pirni (Pirn)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Haabersti #Lilleküla #Marja #Mustjõe
1) #Pear; 2) #Lightbulb – Kellelegi pirni panema is to play a practical joke on someone, take someone for a ride, or make someone’s life miserable.
#Food #Toit
#Fruit #Puuviljad
#Energy #Energia
#Idiom #Idioom
#Mustjõe, and dating back to the 18th or 17th C according to source. None of these details are listed in #mois.ee, the most reliable source on #Estonian manor houses. The same name was also used for the #CharlottentaliTikumanufaktuur, or Charlottental match-factory, located on the
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#Veskimetsa (Veskimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kristiine #Mustjõe #Lilleküla #Marja
#Mill woods, woods near/by the mill. Host to a a wind-themed group. See #Veskimäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Forest #Mets
#Sirge (0)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Perpendicular, straight, upright, erect. Confusingly, the #genitive is identical to the #nominative but, like its peers #Nurklik and #Otse, it is an #adjective that describes the street. A geometrical street-name group. See #Joone.
#Geometry #Geomeetria
#Astangu, #Haabersti, #Kakumäe, #Mustjõe, #Mäeküla, #Pikaliiva, #RoccaAlMare, #Tiskre, #Veskimetsa, #Vismeistri, #VäikeÕismäe and #Õismäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Piibelehe (Piibeleht)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Alternative name for #Maikellukese, lily of the valley, #ConvallariaLajalis, etymology uncertain, but possibly from piip:piibu (pipe, the implication being that of the clay-pipe’s stem, and the...
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#Lammi (Lamm)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Floodplain. After the historic #MustjõeDelta with its now various dried up rivers. See also #Soodi.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#AnotherStreetIHaveNotVisitedYet #VeelÜksTänavMidaMaPoleVeelKülastanud
#NoPixYet #PildidOotel
whether #Pagi and #Paagi would be confused. However, with the first in #Mustjõe and the second in #Paljassaare, there didn’t seem much risk. My own take on this is, given #Estonia’s obsession with the length of its vowels, there’s no way they’d confuse the two.
#EstonianLanguage #EestiKeel
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#Pagi (Pagi)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Squall, wuther (related to #OldNorse #hviða: ‘squall of wind’ so #Pagimäe would be better than #Vihurimäe, see #Tuulemäe), either a single, strong gust of wind, sometimes accompanied by a change of direction and rain or hail, or
#Weather #Ilm
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#Rohumaa (Rohumaa)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Grassland. Next to #Heinamaa.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#Rohumaa (Rohumaa)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
Grassland. Next to #Heinamaa.
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Tuuleveski (Tuuleveski)
Windmill. One of a wind-themed group. See #Tuuliku.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe #Veskimetsa
#Wind #Tuul
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Räitsaka (Räitsakas)
Large wet snowflake, moist snow. Part of a bad-weather group. See #Halla.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Räni (Räni): Silicon. Street hovering between existence (1959) and virtuality (2013) in town-planners’ minds and builders’ pockets.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#UrbanPlanning #Linnaplaneerimine
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#Pikse (Pikne)
Once an otherworldly ruler of the weather, also and otherwise known as #Äike, #Kõu, #Paristaja, or #Pikker (See #Pikri above) (although Kõu and Pikker are usually considered to be brothers, sons of #Uku), apparently related to...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
#Paldiski (?)
Town, port, and former #Soviet nuclear submarine training center close to #Tallinn...
#Kesklinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kristiine #Haabersti #Kassisaba #Kelmiküla #Pelgulinn #Lilleküla #Lille #Marja #Merimetsa #Mustjõe #Haabersti #Veskimetsa #Pikaliiva #VäikeÕismäe #Astangu #Mäeküla
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#Heinamaa (Heinamaa)
Hayfield, grassland, meadow. Next to #Rohumaa.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#Pärituule (Pärituul)
Fair wind, wind due astern, tailwind, lit. a ‘from’ wind. One of a wind-themed group. See #Tuuleveski.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Weather #Ilm
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Marjamaa (Marjamaa)
Berry patch (in a wood), lit. berryland. Formerly known as #Muti. Not to be confused with #Maarjamaa, Estonian for #TerraMariana / Mariae, or Land of Mary...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#History #Ajalugu
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#Ojaveere (Ojaveer)
Brookside, the brook in question being the #Mustjõe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#Sirge (Sirge)
Perpendicular, straight, upright, erect. A geometrical street-name group. See #Joone.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Geometry #Geomeetria
#Siire (Siire)
Transfer, transmission. Also enjambment (värsisiire or stroofisiire), poetic device for ‘straddling’ a phrase over two lines. According to TAAK, however, a decorative motif (street in between #Joone and #Kõrgepinge),
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Nurklik (Adj.)
Angular. A geometrical street-name group. See also #Otse.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Geometry #Geomeetria
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Mustjuure (Mustjuur)
Black salsify, lit. black root, Scorzonera hispanica, aka Spanish salsify, viper’s grass, serpent root (Lat name from Ital scorzone, snake, itself from Lat curtio, viper, due to its v short [curtus] members), and black oyster plant. Next door to #Rõika.
#Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Saarma (Saarmas)
Otter. Native to #Estonia is the harilik saarmas, European otter, Lutra lutra.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Mustjõe
#Animals #Loomad
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Laki (Lakk)
Lacquer, varnish. Named after former factory (see #Värvi). Also (dated?) name for broad-brimmed hat.
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Mustamäe #Haabersti #Lilleküla #Marja #Mustjõe #Kadaka
#Industry #Tööstus
#Angervaksa (Angervaks)
Another #dropwort, Filipendula ulmaria, often known as meadowsweet or mead wort, a common plant in the #Mustjõe valley area until, bad karma, like #Angerpisti, it suffered an acute case of tarmac negativity.
#TaimeNimede #PlantNames
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Mustjõe (Mustjõgi)
Black river (see Mustjõgi). Street formerly known as Sarlote, Sarlotte, Scharlottentali, Scharlottentaler, Шарлоттентальская ул until 1939; District previously named after the #Charlottentali mõis or manor house in #Haabersti.
