their mum’s saucepan for armor, and which early #Norse warrior would not nick his missus’ #casserole to protect his shoulder-rock, as Norse #kennings so poetically describe a head (deadpan humor?). I rest my case.

#FarmName #TaluNimi
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
#Etymology #Etümoloogia

that it comes from the name #Zacharias…

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmName #TaluNimi
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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I give up (but suspect this may well indeed be the origin).

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trade #Kaubandus
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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remains a mystery. Also known as #Linnu (1927-1959) with interlude as #Kuslapuu (1940-1941). Anagram of #Sepa.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Bird #Lind
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Väike-Pääsukese.

View along Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Pääsukese and Maakri.

Sheet-metal and concrete garden at the junction of View along Pääsukese and Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn.

Flower tub made from what looks like one of the WWII mines left scattered around Aegna (to be checked, could be anything...) in Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn.

#Väike-Pääsukese (Väike-Pääsuke[ne])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
Another odd one. Like its bigger brother #Pääsukese, the name is barely used, and the solitary streetsign of its unpronounceable name is positioned in the most out-of-the-way place possible.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi

View along Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Rävala puiestee.

View along Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Maakri.

#Pääsukese (Pääsuke[ne])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
Swallow, martin. Be that as it may, the name comes from #Schwalbegasse after 19th C property-owner and cabman, #CarlSchwalbe. Schwalbe (Ger.) = pääsuke (Est.) = swallow (Eng.).
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Landowner #Maaomanik
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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View of Mardi, Tallinn, with modernish grey aparment blocks and an old building under scaffolding wraps ready for refurbishing.

Old-school wooden bulding with signs of a fire on the outside in Mardi, Tallinn

Old market premises at the entance to the central market in Mardi, Tallinn

Basement cum first-floor window converted into a mirror with car and photographer in its reflection.

it was named after a former landowner who had property on the corner of this street and #Liivalaia (they no longer connect) may well be true. Apparently renamed (1936-1991) as #Lennuki during the #SovietOccupation.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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#Kristeni (?)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
Most likely from Cristen / Kristjan < Christian). Name of a former local farm/farming-family. Farm group. See also #Kurmu.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
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Yet another example of spelling variations, with over 60 examples ranging through Leen, Liena, Maada, Malline, Meedy and even Mallis, a squishing together of Magdalena and Elisabeth.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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from the southern half of #Estonia in the villages of #Võnnu (#Tartumaa) and #Kiidjärv (#Põlvamaa); while in #Valgjärve (Põlvamaa), some 15 km further west, there was another Vissi, recorded in 1582 and 1601 as Wiesth and Wisse respectively.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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