#Saariku (Saarik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
Here, #ash #grove, but also means small island.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Seedri (Seeder)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Cedar, #CedrusSpp. Any in #Estonia are introduced. Also formerly #Turgenevi or #Тургеневская ул.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Pajustiku (Pajustik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
#Willow plot, #osier.
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#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
#Trees #Puud
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
#Saarepuu (Saarepuu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Alternative name for #HarilikSaar, #ash, European or common ash, #FraxinusExcelsior.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
pikalehine paju, #SDasyclados and verkjas paju, #SStarkeana. See also #Paju.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
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#Sarapiku (Sarapik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
#Hazel wood or coppice.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Nõmme-Kase (Nõmme-Kask)
#Nõmme #Birch. Renamed (1960-1990) as #Tiivas A. during the #SovietOccupation.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Lehiste (Lehised [pl.])
#Larches. Sing.: #lehis:lehise (see #Lehise).
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#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.
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#Geography #Geograafia
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Tuhkpuu (Tuhkpuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
#Cotoneaster, member of the rose family, related to #hawthorns, etc. Renaming of the north, western or ‘top left’ end of #LõhmusePõik in 2016. Tree/shrub group, see Kontpuu.
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#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Kõivu (Kõiv)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Alt., dialect and/or #Võro term for #Kase (cf. koivu in Finnish, kõuv in Livonian, and koiv in Veps). Counterpart in antiquity to #Lõhmuse. Variants include #arukõiv (see #Arukaskede); #marokõiv (see #Kase), and #sookõiv (see #Sookaskede).
#Trees #Puud
street and Sub-district were thus named before his (and obviously her) birth after the #Lepiku farm in the then village of Lepiku.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Forests #Metsad
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#Pikakase (Pikakask)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
#TallBirch. Name chosen to replace its former one of #SoonePõik. Since a #põik should at least have the decency of springing off a #tänav or similar, and this one ‘started’ at #Trummi then gave up halfway, its prior name was abandoned.
#Trees #Puud
#Papli (Pappel)
Poplar. #BerliiniPappel, a cultivar we can probably call #Berlin poplar, Populus x berolinensis.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Streetnames #Tänavanimed
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
Previously known as #Ellern Straße, #Erlenstraße, #Лепа ул and #Ольховая ул. Native Americans mixed part of the tree (leaves? flowers?) with powdered bumblebees as an aid for difficult labor. Where on earth did they learn that?
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#Trees #Puud
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#Okka (Okas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku
Relatively broad meanings, including thorn, spine, prick, barb, etc., but here, being a side-street to #Männiku, a needle.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
Kuuse (Kuusk)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
Probably harilik kuusk, Norway spruce, #PiceaAbies. Tree parasitized by #IpsTypographus, the only bark beetle ever to feature in a blue movie, #DerBlaueEngel, alongside #MarleneDietrich. Shortened to #Kuu from 1940-1941.
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Tammepärja (Tammepärg)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Oak wreath, oak garland. Street name might have replaced that of the eastern half of #Pärja in 1989, but for what possible reason I cannot fathom.
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#Trees #Puud
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
Pedaja (Pedajas)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Liiva
Pine. Alternative name for #Männi.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trees #Puud
#Tammiku (Tammik)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Oak grove.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Haaviku (Haavik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Aspen grove.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Hõbekuuse (Hõbekuusk)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Silver spruce. Picea pungens f. argentea, cultivar of the blue colorado spruce, Picea pungens f. glauca.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Männiliiva (Männiliiv)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Mustamäe
Pine sand. What it is and why anyone would want to use it to name a street is anyone’s guess.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trees #Puud
#Sand #Liiv
#wtf
#Loometsa (Loomets)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Possibly forest swathe, or a wood on limestone with stunted trees. Streetname apparently replacing that of the eastern stretch of #Alvari.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#Tõru (Tõru)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
Another name for acorn (see #Tammetõru). Named after the oak trees in the neighborhood. See also #Tamme.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
#Punga (Pung)
Bud, shoot, burgeon.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed
#Trees #Puud
#Männiku (Männik) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe #Liiva #Männiku
Pine wood, pine grove. Street leads to corresponding Sub-district. This street is part of the #E67 from #Helsinki to #Prague.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
#gothic novels, #cemeteries and so on, even #Voldemort’s wand is made of #yew. Said, too, to be #Estonia’s most beautiful tree. Tree/shrub group, see #Kikkapuu.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Trees #Puud
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Hiiepuu (Hiiepuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kose #Varsaallika
Sacred tree, often oak, linden or rowan.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trees #Puud
#Religion #Religioon
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
