An industrial area in a quiet summer evening.

Nõmme, 2021.

#tallinn #nõmme #quietplace #quietplaces #stillness #solitude #urban #urbanphoto #urbanphotography #streetphotography #urbanlandscapes #liminal #liminalphotography

Coat of arms of the Nõmme District in Tallinn: top-left diagonal half, pale brown with stylized, green heather-like plant, and its reverse on the bottom right half. With, again, apologies for my ignorance of heraldic nomenclature.

#Nõmme (Nõmm) #Linnaosa #Asum
Heath, moor, moorland. An odd one: although the #nõminative is #Nõmm, as far as streets or Districts are concerned, it’s never used. Elsewhere (e.g. #Harjuorg, etc.) the occasional District is in the nominative for
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Random ihage of something called Kura No.1: Bottle of Japanese whisky.

Random ihage of something called Kura No.2: An Ikea wood-framed single bed.

Random ihage of something called Kura No.3: A singer or musician, perhaps.

Random ihage of something called Kura No.4: A map of the Kura river system catchment area.

#Kura (Kura)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
No-one seems to know... The obvious solution that comes to mind relates to Kuramaa, Courland, the county, region and former Duchy of Kurzeme in present-day Latvia. On the island of Kihnu, for example...
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Photograph of the fiddle-fern, showing the typically curled distal tips of the fronds, erm, appropriately curled, taken from the www.thespruce.com website

Photograph of the lady-fern, showing a very common growth of the fern family in general, taken from the www.nativefoodsnursery.com website.

#Sõnajala (Sõnajalg)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Fern (lit. word-leg or ‑foot). Oddly, #Estonian does not differentiate foot from leg (both #jalg) or hand from arm (both #käsi). Then again, #English seems...
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Johannes Hint testing the strength of Silicalcite. Photo depitcts Hint standing next to a compression measuring-device as he looks at a roughly 20-cm² block of silicate concrete.

#Silikaltsiidi (Silikaltsiit)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva
#Silicalcite, aka silicate concrete, a building-material more commonly known as #Laprex, invented and manufactured by #JohannesHint (brother of #AaduHint, see #Vesse),...
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#Trepi (Trepp)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Staircase, flight of stairs, doorsteps. Two versions: town-center version once known as...
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Nightingale, photo by Wikipedian Warrieboy, refer to Nightingale on Wikipedia.

#Sisaski (Sisask)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Another of the numerous names for #nightingale, this one tending to belong...
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#Puuvilja (Puuvili)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Fruit. Not to be confused with Puuvilla.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Vegetable #Taimne
#Food #Toit
#Fruit #Puuviljad

#Raua K. (Kristjan Raud, 1865-1943)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Painter and #illustrator of #folklore characters and bizarre...
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Sarve A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names

#Sarve (Sarv)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
1) Horn, antler. A #rhinoceros is #ninasarvik, i.e. a ‘nose-behorned’, and to sow your wild oats is oma sarvi...
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Pihlamarja A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names

#Pihlamarja (Pihlamari)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku
Alternative name for #pihlakamari, the rowanberry, 3 of which are native to #Estonia: #HarilikPihlakas, aka pihelgas, pihlak, pihl, pihlapuu and probably others, #SorbusAucuparia...
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Liiva A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names

Liiva (Liiv) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Rahumäe
Sand, gravel. Sand. Having been a subliminal silicon layer of the country’s chthonic consciousness, it has been the alter ego of multiple highways and byways of Tallinn and...

counter-revolution took to the streets and reclaimed its own: in the municipal zeal to delete the memory of #communist nasties, the old-town street name #Käsperti J. reverted to its original of #Suurtüki. But this dominoed to #Nõmme where another Suurtüki existed already (probably after the
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#Hiiu-Suurtüki (Hiiu-Suurtükk)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Hiiu #cannon. Big gun. Follow me on this one... For years, the street lived as blameless an existence a thoroughfare called ‘Cannon’ could live. Then came the annus mirabilis of Tallinn toponymy when, one warm 2nd July 1987, a wave of
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#Ratta (Ratas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Liiva
#Wheel. Parallel to #Rulli. Probably loaned from #Lithuanian #ratas (before the arrival of #German #Rad), and fairly widespread across #FU languages, this is quite an ancient loan.The plural, in Est. as well as Latv., Lith., Finn. and other FU languages is
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#Möldre (?)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
After the name of a former farm ‘amalgamation’ built up by #JaanTeemant (1872-1941?), lawyer, attorney general and #Estonian #HeadOfState #(riigivanem) from 1925-1927 and 1932, presumed #assassinated by the NKVD in #1941. The actual meaning of #möldre is
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#Viljandi (Viljandi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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#Muuga (Muuga)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Laiaküla
Harbor town a few miles east of Tallinn. Earliest recorded name (1314) was #Naystenoia after its river #Naisteoja (assumed to mean women’s brook), note too the possible former -n genitive, see #Nõmme. The ‘river’ or stream, ditch, trickle today known
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Laulu (Laul)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe
#Song, singing, ditty, ballad. Thought to be thus named for being squished between the #Kandle, #Sulevi and #Ilmarise quadrangle, but #TT states it was originally named – prior to the latters’ existence and irrespective of all three – after #PaulineLaulu,
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#Pohla (Pohl)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Liiva
Aka #harilikPohl (harilik = common), other names include #paluk (± that which grows in heathy pine woodland), #poolamari (Polish berry), #kuradimari (devil berry). This is the #cowberry, #lingonberry and sometimes aka red whortleberry, #VacciniumVitisIdaea,
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#Lõo (Lõo)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Short for(?) #Lõoke and #Lõokene, see #Lõokese, where both the -ke and -kene endings are diminutives, short and long form respectively. An odd word of #ProtoGermanic origin, #*laiwarikōn- or, #*laiwazikōn-, losing the ‘w’ to give Eng. #lark, Swed. #lärkor,
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#Nelgi (Nelk)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku
#Carnation, #pink, dianthus (from the #Greek, God’s flower: Διός, Dios, “of Zeus” and ἀνθός, anthos, flower). Three species indigenous to #Estonia: #nurmnelk, maiden pink, #DianthusDeltoides, with dark red blossoms; #nõmmnelk, sand pink, #DArenarius, with
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#Pääsküla (Pääsküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Tallinn suburb renowned for its landfill and library. First recorded as #Peskulae in the #LiberCensusDaniae (LCD) and assumed named after a ford over nearby river and related to the term #läbipääs, or passage, walkway. One 19th-C
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a #Sub-district name, does not seem to even have a #nominative (see #Nõmme).

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Water #Vesi
#Geography #Geograafia
#Topography #Topograafia
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#Remmelga (Remmelgas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku
#Willow. A seemingly less common name for #Paju, used for these four species (literal translation of first part of names in parentheses): #hõberemmelgas (silver), white willow, #SalixAlba;

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It includes the following #Asumid (Sub-districts): #Kadaka, #Mustamäe, #Siili and #Sääse. See #Nõmme.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Linnaosa #District
#Asum #SubDistrict
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#Üliõpilaste (Üliõpilased [pl.])
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Mustamäe #VanaMustamäe
#UniversityStudents (Sing.: #Üliõpilane), for bordering on land belonging to #TallinnaTehnikaülikool or Tallinn School of Technology, now more commonly/affectionately called TalTech.

#Education #Haridust

#Pesa (Pesa)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Nest. Formerly known as #Greeni from which the ‘G’ disagreeable to the #Estonian palate often disappeared to produce #Reeni and transliterated into #German and #Russian as #Greenstraße and #Ренская ул (renski) indicating a personal name but whose
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#Vaigu (Vaik)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
#Resin, pitch, gum.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus

#Sambla (Sammal)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Moss. Until 1922, known as #Šahtli, #Schahtli, #Schachtelstraße or #Шахтельская ул, evidently after a former #landowner. Known (1940-41) as #Aseme (from #ase, meaning, among other things, bed or place to sleep and so, yes, moss, but more likely
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