View of footpath and/or cyclepath along Sõle showing the abundant greenery on both sides of the path.

Small, slightly-old apartment housing set back from the main road in Sõle, Tallinn.

Large, grey, 4-story apartment block on Sõle, Tallinn. The block seems to consist in maybe 24 apartments accessed through 3 main doors, in front of the building are 3 spindly-looking evergreen trees

Longitudinal view of Sõle road, showing its 6 lane and general breadth.

#Sõle (Sõlg)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Pelguranna #Sitsi
Brooch, pin, ouch (not an onomatopoeic consequence of mishandling, ‘ouch’ is derived from French, nouche, the socket of a
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#Vaniku (Vanik)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Wreath, garland, chaplet, ranging from the traditional garland of flowers to the increasingly popular garlands of autumn leaves hung below windows, to woven headdresses. Previously known by its Pelgulinn synonym #Pärja in 1959.

#Folklife #Rahvaelu

#Rukki (Rukis)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Rye. Part of a cereal-names street zone. See #Kaera.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Crop #Põllukultuur
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Food #Toit

#Saue (Sau)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Fine #clay, appropriately parallel to #Telliskivi, also the name of a #town SW of Tallinn. Originally named #Lau or #Lao, the former, not as in #laupäev (#Saturday), a #Scandinavian (or #MLG) borrowing of uncertain origin implying washing-day
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#Merimetsa (Merimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Merimetsa #Pelgulinn
Woods beside the sea. As indeed they are. The name is actually a translation from the #German ‘#Seewald’, the name of the summer manor donated by #BaronessMarieGirardDeSoucanton (see #RoccaAlMare) for the creation of a
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#Lible (Lible)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Glume. Now here’s a word you need to know: a glume is a leaf-like #thingy (#bract) just below the #PointyBit (#spikelet) of the #flower or flower #cluster (#inflorescence) of #sedges (#Cyperaceae) and #grasses (#Poaceae) respectively.
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#Maisi (Mais)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Maize, #IndianCorn. Part of a cereal-names street zone. Formerly #Kilgi, cricket, grasshopper (1959-1960), and #Nurme (1924?-1959). See also #Nisu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Plants #Taimed
#Food #Toit

in #Pelgulinn, was paved and baptized (with a nice font for the typeface) in 1930 but recognized the folly of its ways and converted to its synonym #Vaniku, with a bit of arm-twisting, in 1959. There are Dark Hints suggesting that the former ceded part of its length to #Tammepärja in 1989.
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#Kesa (Kesa)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Fallow. Street perpendicular to #Mullamaa.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus

#Ristiku (Ristik)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
1) #Clover, #trefoil (lit. three-leaf), although the etymology from #rist, cross, suggests the supposedly luckier four-leafed variety; 2) #Perpendicular; 3) #Grating; 4) very archaic: name for a cow born...

#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed
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#Õle (Õlg)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Straw or, when plural, chaff or thatch. #Õlg:õla, on the other hand, is shoulder, hence any coleopteran antero-lateral elytral protuberance although I have my doubts that this would spontaneously appeal to a street-naming committee.
#Insects#Putukad

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#Kolde (Kolle)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Merimetsa #Pelguranna
#Hearth, fireplace, grate. Named after nearby housing scheme #kooperatiivehitusühing (cooperative building union), ‘#OmaKolle’, a sort of ‘Home Sweet Home’ (lit. my (one’s) own home/hearth).
#Communism #Kommunism

#Hipodroomi (Hipodroom)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#Hippodrome, or race-track, to which – if they ever get round to tarmacing it – it would have been near. The last race was held in 2022, 99 years after its opening, and the property will be redeveloped as commercial and domestic real-estate.

#Kaera (Kaer)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Oat. Part of what #Kivi calls the #KõrsviljanimelisteTänavate #piirkond or #hulk or #rajoon (the cereal-names street zone, cohort, region). Anagram of #Kaare. See also #Kõrre.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus

#Helme (Helmes)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Bead, often of the silver or #amber (#merevaik) varieties.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur

#Orase (Oras)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Young crop, first shoots of grain. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See #Pebre.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed

it’s on both... There are, of course, legends, which are, precisely, legends... The story goes something like this: #Kelmiküla is next to #Pelgulinn of #SherwoodForest status, so this is where the bad guys went. My suspicion leads me elsewhere: a name is often given for reasons of singularity,
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#Kelmiküla (Kelmiküla) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Kelmiküla
Rogue’s village, scampstown (a slum in the late 19th C). Also name of story by #Kitzbergi A. about life in #Viljandi. Why it got that name is uncertain. It can’t be because it’s on the wrong side of the tracks, because
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#Preesi (Prees)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Brooch, a variant of the #Sõlg, but tending to be more open-worked, with serrations, pendants and/or jeweled (often molten glass) incrustations. The two words have a degree of overlap in meaning.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

#Sõmera (Sõmer)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Coarse sand, grain or granule, gravelly, shingly, gritty, the latter two not to be confused. Street named in 1931, two years after Saue, its peer, had been renamed.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#BuildingMaterials #Ehitusaterjalid

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Söödi.

View along Söödi, Tallinn, in the Auna direction.

Apartment block in Söödi, Tallinn.

Laundry drying in Söödi, Tallinn, with two bicycles standing by, pretending they're not in a relationship.

#Söödi (Sööt)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Fallow land. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See #Timuti.
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Harvest #Lõikus
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Taime.

View along Taime, Tallinn, in the general direction of Heina.

Lock-up garages in Taime, Tallinn, garages seemingly a city obsession.

Two ladies gardening in Taime, Tallinn.

#Taime (Taim)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Plant, vegetable.
#Plants #Taimed
#Nature #Loodus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kõrre.

View along Kõrre, Tallinn, in the direction of Ristiku.

Bright yellow house in Kõrre, Tallinn.

Garden, with bicycle attached to tree in Kõrre, Tallinn.

#Kõrre (Kõrs)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Stalk, straw. Part of a cereal-names street zone. See also #Luste.
#Food #Toit
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Pebre.

View along Pebre, Tallinn, in the direction of Heina.

View along Pebre, Tallinn, in the direction of Õle.

Modernised apartment building in Pebre, Tallinn.

#Pebre (Peber)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Broken or crushed hay and seeds at bottom of hayrick. During #Soviet times, collecting these perishables was rewarded by special travel permits, allowing many women and children to visit otherwise inaccessible destinations such as
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Timuti.

View along Timuti, Tallinn, from the Õle direction.

View along Timuti, Tallinn, in the direction of Heina.

View along Timuti, Tallinn, from the Heina direction.

#Timuti (Timut)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Timothy grass, cat’s-tail. Formerly known as #Tarabella (1910-1939), at one stage believed to be some #mythological deity, but in fact turned out to be the name of city councilor and arbitrageur #AlbertKoba’s dog.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Mulla.

View along Mulla, Tallinn, in the direction of Sõle.

Apartment block in Mulla, Tallinn.

Hairdresser's sign, Pelgulinna Juuksur, in Mulla, Tallinn.

Mulla (Muld)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Earth, soil. See #Mullamaa for related discussion.
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Orase.

Curve in the road at the Taime end of Orase, Tallinn.

House in Orase, Tallinn, part concealed with lilac blossoms.

Woman clearing the grass growing in a garden in Orase, Tallinn.

Orase (Oras)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Young crop, first shoots of grain. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See #Pebre.
#Food #Toit
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Heine.

View into former workshops near railway sidings in Heine, Tallinn.

House hidden by trees in Heine, Tallinn.

Pirate ship at the Ristiku end of Heine, Tallinn.

#Heina (Hein)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Hay. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See #Lible.
#Food #Toit
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Luste.

View along Luste, Tallinn, in the direction of Ristiku, from the Heina end.

View of the Estonian National Film Archive (Rahvusarhiivi filmiarhiiv) half-rotunda from the back.

Wall in Luste, Tallinn, may need repair

#Luste (Luste)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Brome grass. Part of a cereal-names street zone. See also #Maisi.
#Food #Toit
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Nisu.

View along Nisu, Tallinn.

Garden, with clothes-drying frames, bicycle and seating in Nisu, Tallinn.

View of apartment block towards the Sõle end of Nisu, Tallinn.

#Nisu (Nisu)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Wheat. #TT puts this in the #teraviljanimeliste, grain cereals, street name group, but could probably also go in his #kõrsviljanimeliste, or cereal-names, street zone. See also #Rukki.