#Taevakivi (Taevakivi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba
#Meteorite, lit. celestial or sky stone. After local site of meteorite impact some 20-25K years ago, as is nearby #Tähesaju. The #TondirabaMeteoriidijälg, or meteorite footprint, is ±200 m WNW from the northern end of the street. See also #Kivi.
the mournful marsh named #TondiRaba, it must represent the appealing address of “Bleak limestone region covered with thin topsoil and stunted vegetation” road, and since half of this and all of its benighted neighbor #Rähkloo are not even on the map, we can extend the definition to
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#Kuuli (Kuul)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba #Sõjamäe #Sõstramäe
#Bullet, shot, ball or even (but not in this case) pill. Named after a turn-of-the-(last)-century military firing range.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Military #Sõjaline
#Tähesaju (Tähesadu)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba
#MeteoriteShower (lit. starfall). Last of the D&D group as it peters out into the more, shall we say, ‘bricks and mortar’ streets of #Kärberi K. and co. See #Arbu. Named, like #Taevakivi, after local traces of 20-25K year old #meteorite impact.
#Kivila (Kivila)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Mustakivi #Tondiraba
"Place of the stone". Although kivila could be a contraction of #kiviküla, stone village (see #Hiiela), which used to be a slightly pejorative way of saying ‘town’, reflecting the grim grey gracelessness of the #Soviet-built
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#Mustakivi (Mustakivi) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Mustakivi #Kuristiku #Katleri #Tondiraba
#BlackStone. Named after a nearby farm itself said to be named after an earlier cult stone. Mustakivi is one of #Estonia’s erratic boulders, see #Rändrahnu, located at ///stop.hamster.glorious.
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#Varraku (Varrak)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna #Tondiraba
1) Character from the #Kalevipoeg: the #Lappish sage who agrees to take Kalevipoeg to the end of the world. 2) The #Viking traders, pirates, mercenaries (to 11th/13th C #Kievan and #Novgorodian princes among others), known mainly as body-
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#Kuukivi (Kuukivi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba
Moonstone. Not an erratic boulder, a new (2018) member of the magico-mythological group. See #Loitsu.
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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Folklore #Folkloor
#Osmussaare (Osmussaar)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba #Mustakivi
Island (lit. ‘malm island’, its #Swedish name of #Odensholm, or #Odin’s grave, is more romantic) 7.5 km off the NW coast of #Estonia, 4 km long, uninhabited since the #SovietDeportation of 12 farming families, now a nature reserve.
#Tondiraba (Tondiraba)
‘Ghost’s’ mire/fen/marsh. See #Tondi. This part of #Tallinn was clearly associated with a member of the #Dunte family, since there used to be a Tondi kõrts (inn), aka Tunte Korts or Dunten-Krug (1732) on (now) Narva mnt (///count.youth.planting),
#Lasnamäe #Katleri
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Two candidates for both #Tondi asum and Tondi tänav are proposed: 1) Jobst Dunte of c. 1635-1697; and 2) Jobst Dunte of 1670-1710. No clear candidate for #Tondiraba. On the night of 1625-06-28/29, a fire in Viru damaged (destroyed?) the house of a #JobstDunte who,
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The name was later given to a #linnamõis (see #Mõisa) a kilometer or so NNW, owned at one stage by one of the Jobst Duntes, so also known as Tondi Mõis (see #Tondi and #Tondiraba). Another #VäoMõis was located some 20-odd km east of #Tallinn.
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#Paasiku (Paasik)
Flagstone, probably after former #quarries in nearby #Tondiraba, one south of #Kivila (qv.), the other north of #Tähesaju.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Katleri
#RoadBuildingMaterials #TeeEhitusaterjalid
#Tondiraba (Tondiraba)
Ghost’s mire/fen/marsh, but see #Tondi.
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#TSTN
