#Lemle (Lemmel)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#Duckweed, gibbous or otherwise, but in #Estonia probably common duckweed, #LemnaMinor. Other names include #konnaläätsed (frog lentils), #seauba (pig bean), #päevaseep (day soap), and, curiously, #tiigieile (pond last-nighter or yesterdayer),
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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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#Astangu, #Haabersti, #Kakumäe, #Mustjõe, #Mäeküla, #Pikaliiva, #RoccaAlMare, #Tiskre, #Veskimetsa, #Vismeistri, #VäikeÕismäe and #Õismäe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Kaladi (Kaladi)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
Gauge: slat of wood or bone used to ensure regular mesh-size in net-making. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also #Kessi.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FishingTackle #Kalastustarvete
#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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Фишмейстеръ (Vismeystri / Fishmeystre). Writing and written records can do only pale justice to the infinite variety of sounds the ear can hear, and mouth and memory can reproduce, a drop in the ocean of language history. See #Rannamõisa & #Vismeistri.
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#Laurimaa (Laurimaa)
Laur family’s land, see next entry.
#Lauripere (Lauripere)
Laur family, household, farm. Both this and #Laurimaa after a farm of that name. See also #Mardipere
Double entry, nothing to do with book-keeping, sorta...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#Silgu (Silk)
Baltic herring, small and/or salted or otherwise – olla nagu silgud pütis: to be packed like sardines. Could be considered synonymous with the actual fish, #Räime, but, as reflected in its #Swedish etymon, #sill, is often...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe #Vismeistri
#Fish #Kalad
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#Põllumäe (Põllumägi)
Hill homestead (see #Mäe for discussion). Another farm name. See also #Taludevahe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Parve (Parv)
Raft, after local liferaft station. Word also means flock, school or swarm.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Mirta (?)
Former farm name.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#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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#Kaheküla (Kaheküla)
Literally double-village, but name given for being between two former villages of #Kakumäe and #Vismeistri across which two Sub-districts it runs.
#Tallinn #Haabersti
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Müta (Mütt)
Long pole with hoof-shaped end used to scare (presumably equiphobic) fish into a net, or perhaps club for killing fish. Also wooden stirring stick, perhaps a domestic forefather to the preceding device. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also #Nata.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#Uuepere (Uuepere)
New family, household, farm. Former farm name, belonging to a farm-name group. See also #Uustalu.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Vähi (Vähk)
The noble, European or broad-fingered crayfish, Astacus astacus, aka #jõevähk, #harilikjõevähk, #väärisvähk (vääris = noble, costly...), not a fish, a #crustacean (English name derived from old #French crevis [today #écrevisse],
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe #Vismeistri
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#Uustalu (Uustalu)
New farm, named, of course, after an old farm... One of the farm group of streets. See also #Vahepere.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
#Vabaõhumuuseumi (Vabaõhumuuseum)
Open-air/Outdoor museum. Longest single-word streetname ex aequo with #Märtsikellukese, 15 letters.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Rocca al Mare #Õismäe #Kakumäe #Vismeistri
#Viige (?)
Old farm name. As to actual meaning?... Viiga and Viigi are recorded as forenames in the #Tartu region. Plenty for viik:viigi: fig (not that common in the Tropics of #Vismeistri), draw or tie, tapeworm, and crease.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
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#Kiini (Kiin):
1) Billhook or heavy chopping-knife, apparently from #Latvian šķīnis (possibly related to Proto-Germanic *skintha-, ‘to flay, skin’ [cf. #German schinden]), used for assarting purposes (see neighbors #Aedvere, etc.).
Long thread, hang on!
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
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#Viige (?)
Old farm name. As to actual meaning?... Viiga and Viigi are recorded as forenames in the #Tartu region. Plenty for viik:viigi: fig, draw or tie, tapeworm, and crease.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
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#Vismeistri (Vismeister)
From Fischmeister or ‘fishmaster’. Former village named after #Toompea’s – what in today’s post-GoT world would be called – ‘Master of Fish’ in charge of fishing and fish supplies.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Fish #Kalad
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Writing and written records can do only pale justice to the infinite variety of sounds the ear can hear, and mouth and memory can reproduce, a drop in the ocean of language history. See #Rannamõisa & #Vismeistri.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#HeadÖöd
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