#look:looke (shaft bow, the decorative arch connecting the two shafts or thills [see #Aisa] of a horse-drawn cart, but #Looga already used) and #Silmus:silmuse (loop knot, noose or hempen collar). Given the meanders of the #Tiskre river, all three were acceptable, but no... Then again,
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#Pauna (Paun)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#Bag, #pouch, knapsack, or something pouch-shaped. New street (2019) in #Haabersti/#Vismeistri opposite #Põllumäe south of #Tiskre. Stiff competition for the name, beating, #käär:kääru (turn, curve or bend, or bounded loop of land or water),
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#Teisepere (Teisepere)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#Neighbours / Next-door neighbours, lit. second or other family. May also be spelled teise pere or teispere aka teistre (although most people say #naaber these days: #idanaaber, for example, ‘eastern neighbor’, is another.
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#Astangu, #Haabersti, #Kakumäe, #Mustjõe, #Mäeküla, #Pikaliiva, #RoccaAlMare, #Tiskre, #Veskimetsa, #Vismeistri, #VäikeÕismäe and #Õismäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Kukesaba (Kukesaba):
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
Purple-loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, (lit. cocktail) flower fond of marshland and moisture, lakesides and ditches. New street created alongside #Aaslina and #Hanijala.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Nature #Loodus
#Flowers #Lilled
#Hanijala (Hanijlag)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
Silverweed, silver cinquefoil, Argentina anserina, (lit. goosefoot). Said to absorb sweat when put in shoes, but also believed to ward off witches. You choose. New street created alongside #Aaslina and #Kukesaba.
#Nature #Loodus
#Flowers #Lilled
#Aaslina (Aaslina)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
Purging or fairy flax, Linum catharticum, (lit. meadow flax), formerly used for a laxative tea, but inducing vomiting if ingested in large-enough quantities. New street created alongside #Hanijala and #Kukesaba.
#Nature #Loodus
#Flowers #Lilled
#look:looke (shaft bow, the decorative arch connecting the two shafts or thills [see #Aisa] of a horse-drawn cart, but #Looga already used) and #silmus:silmuse (loop knot, noose or hempen collar). Given the meanders of the #Tiskre river, all three were acceptable, but no...
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#Pauna (Paun)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
Bag, pouch, knapsack, or something pouch-shaped. New street planned (2019) in #Haabersti opposite #Põllumäe south of #Tiskre. Stiff competition for the name, beating, #käär:kääru (turn, curve or bend, or bounded loop of land or water),
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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
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Vahepere (Vahepere)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
The name of a former local farm/farming-family: ‘the farm in between’ or ‘middle farm’. Farm group. See also #Eevardi.
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Tiskrevälja (Tiskreväli)
Area/Land outside/around the former #Tiskre village. Earlier iterations of the name include #Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach, 1522), #Diskerkulle (Tiskre village, 1531) and #Tischer (manor, 1798, see Mõisa).
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#ManorHouses #Mõisad
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#Toomapere (Toomapere)
Thomas’s family, household, farm. Farm group. See also #Tõnu.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Farms #Talud
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Roolahe (Roolaht)
Reedy cove.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#Plants #Taimed
#Rannaniidu (Rannaniit)
Meadow by the sea.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#Tiskre (Tiskre) #TallinnaAsum
After the river and one-time manor house. Sub-district and residential area some 12 km west of Tallinn center. Parts of the street renamed (1995) as #Jõeoti and #Räime.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#ManorHouses #Mõisad
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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Hansu (Hans)
Uncertain. TAAK gives it as the name of a former farm, but not listed as such in KNAB. According to Hamilton’s 3rd Law of Odonymy (see #Aedvere) and the street’s year of naming (2004),
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
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#Kotlepi (Kotlep)
From the #German, #Gottfried, with multiple spellings (Kottvriid, Kottart, Kotolt, etc.). Name of former local farm/farming-family. Farm group. Although judging by its German name, the ‘farm’ may well have been a poolmõis, see #Mõisa. See also #Kristeni.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
#Kudu (Kudu)
Spawn, after spawning site in the #Tiskre river. #Konnakudu is frogspawn. Oddly, part of a fish group, see #Latika.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
#Animals #Loomad
#Nature #Loodus
#Vaagi (Vaak)
Not ‘weighing-scales’ as I originally thought (vaag:vae or vaag:vaaki), but flowering-plants of the #Inula genus, with three species growing in #Estonia: #aedvaak, the #elecampane of multiple medico-mythical properties named after #HelenOfTroy...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
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Runs, not surprisingly, along the southern #shore of #Tallinna Reid, easternmost of Tallinn’s bays. Confusingly, #TallinnaLaht, Tallinn Bay (see #Lahe), consists in 4 bays (lahed) running west to east: #Odonymy #Odonüümia Kakumäe or #Tiskre, #Kopli and #Paljassaare, then #TallinnaReid
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#Ojakääru (Ojakäär[d])
Winding brook, the brook being the #Tiskre river.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Rivers #Jõed
#Rannamõisa (Rannamõis)
Manor by the beach, stately home in Keila (German name: Strandhof). Formerly #Tiskre, Fišmeistri., Strandhofscher Weg, Tischerscher Weg (the result of a typo for the next one?), Fischmeisterscher Weg, and oddly Раннамыйза-теэ, ул., or Rannamõisa-road Road.#TallinnaTänavad
#Jõeoti (Jõeott)
Farm name. Lit. river bear. Along with #Räime, street renaming a section of #Tiskre in 1995.
#TaludeNimede
#Räime (Räim)
#Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras. Morphing along the food-chain to #Silgu. Along with #Jõeoti, street renaming a section of #Tiskre in 1995. Part of a fish group. See also #Ründi.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Tallinn
#Sõnastik
This one too:
#Taludevahe (0)
Between / Among the farms. The farms in question being those in #Tiskre. Farm group. See also #Tedrepere.
#TallinnStreets
