Gaur ikusitako eskela.
Nekez bil daiteke #Mikel-en aldaera gehiago izen bakar batean: Mike, Mikele eta Mitxel.
Bidenabar, hebreera da: Mī-khā-'Ēl =
Nor Jainkoa bezala(koa)?
Goian bego.
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from #MHG #smēken, to caress lovingly – whose root *smē- gives us #OldHighGerman #Schmer, fat or lard, modern #German #schmeicheln, to flatter – to English #smear and #Swedish #smör, or butter. And that's why we look so tasty.
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Toponymy #Toponüümia
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A fence in Veduri, Tallinn, the borders of which most vegetation ignores.
View half-way along Veduri, Tallinn.
#Etymology is the #paleontology of words: fractured glimpses of one-off usages out of the infinite variations of the collective idiolect. One of a small locomotive-themed group next to #Tallinn-Väike station. See #Vee.
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
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Eneka Azenari, 1096 urtean jasoa, Iruñean. 😍 #onomastika
#Kuhja (Kuhi)
Heap, rick, pile, stack. Mini hay-, harvest-related group. See #Rangu.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
Also of interest is that the #Saaremaa name of #Kaali has nothing to do with root vegetables but comes from the #vonGahlen family who owned an estate there from 16th C to 1729. In southern Estonia, Setumaa in particular, kaal:kaali is a headscarf.
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#Pidu (0)
Festival, feast, banquet, public celebration. Odd, the genitive of #pidu is #peo, and #Laulupeo (1923) corrected itself two years after initially naming itself #Laulupidu, and this was created in 1927...
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
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#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
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#VanaTurg [0)
One of the oldest parts of #Tallinn, the point at which all main roads to/from #Narva, #Viljandi, #Tartu, #Pärnu, the islands (#Saaremaa & #Hiiumaa), #Riga, #Novgorod and #Rome converged.
#Kesklinn #Vanalinn #All-linn
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#Teaduspargi (Teaduspark)
Science park or cluster. The park in question being the Tallinn Technology Park, #TallinnaTehnoloogiapark.
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Kadaka
#Education #Haridust
#Onomastics #Onomastika
workers’ meeting, a word clearly nicked from English, but only vaguely adopted, subsequent usages emphasizing the first syllable with a double ‘i’, miiting (see #Kaasani). One of a mini target-practice group. See #Oda.
#Anglicisms #Anglitsismid
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especially given the mention of #Feuchte und #Heidigste #Fiehtriften (damp and heathery cattle pasture or commons) 200 years earlier on a 1698 map of ‘#StadtRäfwal’ (city of #Reval, i.e. #Tallinn). Renamed as #Nahhimovi P. during the #Soviet Era (1953-1990).
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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#Vahtra (Vaher)
Maple, harilik vaher, sometimes known as #pikaninapuu (long nose tree), #NorwayMaple, Acer platanoides.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Trees #Puud
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Odonymy #Odonüümia
#Malmi (Malm)
Cast iron. After local iron foundry. Scrap iron is #malmimurd. (see #Väomurru). The word also designates a sort of loamy earth especially good for brick-making. Prolonged by #Valgevase.
#Tööstus #Industry
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#Kivimäe (Kivimägi)
Stone mountain. Named, apparently, after the mound of earthworks resulting from building the Tallinn-Keila railway. See #Mäe.
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Odonymy #Odonüümia
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
The suggestion that the latter comes from #Polish #wiesęcę, an obscure word said to mean ‘notice’ or ‘rumor’, seems unlikely, but it could come from the #Livonian name, Vesithe. And while this area, loosely, was one of #OldBeliever immigration from #Russia (see #Sikuti),
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#Tondimägi (0)
‘Ghost’ hill. Just a hill – nothing to see here! but see #Tondi. See also #Mäe for discussion.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Priisle
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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the name of a moss, although quite a thorough search found no mention of the name. Closest we get is #kännuvildik, Aulacomnium androgynum, the aulacomnium or lover’s moss. Street not actually in #Tallinn but 300 m away in neighboring #Laagri. See also #Käolina.
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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#Salve (Salv)
Bin, hopper. Street named after a one-time nearby silo.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
Viik:viige exists/ed as a dialectal form of viik:viigi, crease, trouser pleat, but even if a crease could be thought of as a sort of valley, it’s still scraping the bottom of the barrel. Another dialectal meaning of viik:viigi is bay or cove, which at last make sense,
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#Kesk-Kalamaja (Kesk-Kalamaja)
Central Kalamaja. Not that central at all, but I suppose South-Eastern Kalamaja is a bit of a mouthful, as is #KaguKalamaja too.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Pelgulinn (0), a #Tallinn "Asum", or Sub-district.
Lit. town of #asylum, refuge, shelter which seems, legend has it, due to it being a common hiding place for #criminals and #outlaws in the 18th C. A slum in the late-19th C.
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Kahlu (Kahl)
Tuft, bunch, truss. Mini hay-related group. See #Kuhja.
#HayMaking #Heinategu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Hiiumetsa (Hiiumets)
Hiiu woods. A road built for light traffic, in other words a two-way bicycle lane, see Harkumetsa, renamed as #Kitsarööpa in 2014
#Renaming #Ümbernimetamine
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Angervaksa (Angervaks)
Another #dropwort, Filipendula ulmaria, often known as meadowsweet or mead wort, a common plant in the #Mustjõe valley area until, bad karma, like #Angerpisti, it suffered an acute case of tarmac negativity.
#TaimeNimede #PlantNames
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or Raud Arro (1725) in #German and Raudorakrog, etc. (1697) in #Swedish. Confusion was a no-brainer. Name changed in 1949 to #Viljandi to which it also leads, if you have the time.
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#NameChanges #Nimemuutused
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#Kilde (?)
Old farm name. #Etymology most uncertain. Possibly from kild:killu, fragment, suggesting the result of a #farm heritage division? Kild was also a relatively common man’s name in the 18th C. Perhaps (but unlikely) related to Old #Norse kelda, spring or source?
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Suurevälja (Suur väli)
Big field (‘the great outdoors’ anyone?). Former farm name. See #Välja.
#Farms #Talud
#Onomastics #Onomastika
#Aia (Aed)
Fence, enclosure, garden, run. However, as in English where garden originally meant that which enclosed it, as in, for example, Latin: hortus gardinus, ‘enclosed garden’, deriving from Proto Indo-European (PIE) *gher- ‘to grasp, to enclose’
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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