Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

4 months ago

#Tuulenurga (Tuulenurk)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe
#WindyCorner, athough the #nurk:nurga ending could also refer to a #paddock. Estonification of the earlier #Windeck summer house, streetname replacing the western strip of #Kose in (what seems to be called, perhaps informally)
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

#Kivinuka (Kivinukk): Stone/Stony corner (or paddock, see #Tuulenurga), or why not ‘nook’, next to a wood of the same name attached to a former poolmõis (see Mõisa) first recorded as Ges. Kiwwiauk (1798, lit. ‘stone hole’ dependency) and thence,
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Kadaka
#Geology #Geoloogia
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