#Rätsepa (Rätsep): #Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe #Pirita #Tailor, from #rätt (and #Sepa), today used more in the sense of #kerchief Read more: tallinnstreets.com/index.php/en/

Just an ordinary guy trying to catch Trump’s attention for a promotion…

#Raua K. (Kristjan Raud, 1865-1943) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Painter and #illustrator of #folklore characters and bizarre... REad more: tallinnstreets.com/index.php/en...

#Rändrahnu (Rändrahn) #Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja #ErraticBoulder, aka #GlacialErratic, aka erratic, and known by various names in #Estonian too: Read more: tallinnstreets.com/index.php/en...

Absoluutselt, see on vapustav, ilus! Amazing artwork from Australia!

Should someone tell him about October 26, 1956?

#Sõjakooli (Sõjakool) #Tallinn #Kristiine #Tondi #MilitarySchool, academy. After the military barracks established in #Tondi in the early 20th C... Read more: tallinnstreets.com/index.php/en...

Rästa (Rästas) #Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Linnu Thrush. Breeding in Estonia: hallrästas aka paskrästas, fieldfare, Turdus pilaris... Read more: tallinnstreets.com/index.php/en...

#Sarve (Sarv) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla 1) Horn, antler. A #rhinoceros is #ninasarvik, i.e. a ‘nose-behorned’, and to sow your wild oats is oma sarvi... Read more...

OK, Estonia! I now want a complete, credible and meaningful translation of this last example into English. Thanks!

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have some good news for us all. Excellent monologue by the reliable Rachel Maddow. m.youtube.com/watch?v=akka...

#Pöialpoisi (Pöialpoiss) #Tallinn #Kristiine #Tondi #Goldcrest, #RegulusRegulus. National bird of #Luxembourg. A #pöialpoiss (thumb-boy) is also a rather ill-defined character of #Estonian #folklore. The #BrothersGrimms’ #SnowWhite’s dwarves are... Read more...

#Kaarla (Kaarel) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg Another name for #rabamurakas, cloudberry or bakeapple in the US, knotberry or knoutberry in the UK, #RubusChamaemorus. The term #bakeapple... ~Update~ Read more...

#Narva (Narva) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Lasnamäe #Pirita #Südalinn #Sadama #Kompassi #Raua #Kadriorg #Kurepõllu #Paevälja #Loopealse #Katleri #Kuristiku #Priisle #Iru Town on #Russian border. Earliest records of present name... Read more:

#Raekoja tänav (Raekoda) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn Town hall street. Earliest recorded name was #budel or #BodelStrate (1371). Understood or #misunderstood in the 1st edition of the present dictionary as... Read more

To avoid overkill, I'm reducing my posts from 6 to 4 per day. #A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names #TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

#Smuuli J. (Juhan Smuul, 1922-1971) #Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna #Paevälja #Pae #Kurepõllu Known by his Germanic name Johannes Schmuul until 1954. People’s Writer and winner of the Stalin Prize (1952) and Lenin Prize (1961). The Estonian... Read more...

#Sanglepa (Sanglepp) #Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe Aka must lepp or #mustlepp (black alder), #emalepp (mother alder), #seatamm (pig oak), black, European or common alder, #AlnusGlutinosa. 3% of Estonian stands consist of this.. Read more...

#Pihlamarja (Pihlamari) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku Alternative name for #pihlakamari, the rowanberry, 3 of which are native to #Estonia: #HarilikPihlakas, aka pihelgas, pihlak, pihl, pihlapuu and probably others, #SorbusAucuparia... For more:

I'm sure it will be fine in the end. Who needs fish anyway? 🙄

When your timeline cleanse is both funny and not really... www.youtube.com/shorts/IazKA...

Liiva (Liiv) #Asum #Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Rahumäe Sand, gravel. Sand. Having been a subliminal silicon layer of the country’s chthonic consciousness, it has been the alter ego of multiple highways and byways of Tallinn and...

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names PSA! Getting to the end of the dictionary's now 1830 Tallinn street entries. Currently using Buffer to program posts, but the free version allows only 1 thread per batch of 10. The remaining articles to be posted are all longer and more complex so 1/

#Hiiu-Suurtüki (Hiiu-Suurtükk) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu #Hiiu #cannon. Big gun. Follow me on this one... For years, the street lived as blameless an existence a thoroughfare called ‘Cannon’ could live. Then came the annus mirabilis of Tallinn toponymy when, one warm 2nd July 1987, a wave of 1/5

#Kikkapuu (Kikkapuu) #Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja #SpindleTree, #EuonymusSpp., the common or European spindle, #EuonymusEuropaeus, occurs in southern #Estonia. Its name comes from using its hard wood for making spindles for spinning wool. (PSA: the #English ‘-(d)le’ is probably a #frequentative 1/4

#Mere (Meri) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #Sadama #Sea, #ocean. Some linguists have suggested that mere could be a loan word belonging to speakers of a #preFinnoUgric and #preIndoEuropean language of the #KundaCulture, hunter-gatherers of the period 8000-5000 BCE. Others, less, say, 1/3

#KanutiAed (Kanut) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn Allasum #KolmasLinn #Canute’s garden (see #Kanuti). On or by a one-time moat until 19th C. Land leased to #KanutiGild (Canute’s guild) in 1866 to create a public garden. Used by travelling #circuses and evolving into an amusement part. 1/2

#Meistrite hoov (Meistrid [pl.]) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn #Masters’ courtyard (see #Meistri). Cobbled passageway off #Vene 6, dating back to pre-13th C, but first recorded 1371. Nice café. #A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names #TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad #History #Ajalugu

Can’t these MFs exercise their brains instead of their masturbatory machismo?

#Hobujaama (Hobu[se][posti?]jaam) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama #Stage, #PostingStage. First known as #HermapöllscheGasse or #Hermapõllu (Herm[ann]’s (?) field) in the late 18th C, and apparently that for over 100 years with the 1876 #TallinnaLinnaplan (map) which seems to show fields on either 1/12

#Saarepiiga (Saarepiiga) #Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna In common parlance #Saaremaa or island girl: #piga is a dated term for girl, (serving-)maid in #Swedish, although this one was probably the #IsleMaiden that #Kalevipoeg, ever the gentleman, frightened into drowning herself in Canto IV. 1/3

#Ratta (Ratas) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Liiva #Wheel. Parallel to #Rulli. Probably loaned from #Lithuanian #ratas (before the arrival of #German #Rad), and fairly widespread across #FU languages, this is quite an ancient loan.The plural, in Est. as well as Latv., Lith., Finn. and other FU languages is 1/3

Starting my great American novel: It was the stupidest of times. It was the, again to be clear, stupidest of times.

One of my all-time favourite films!

#Priisle (Priisle) #Asum #Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Priisle Street and Sub-district of Lasnamäe, suburb a few km (±5) WSW of Tallinn center. Named after earlier farm or hamlet it was built upon. For reasons I confess I am unlikely ever to fathom, the District name changed from #Priisli in 1970, which 1/3

#Lehise (Lehis) #Tallinn #Pirita #Maarjamäe #Larch. Two species introduced to #Estonia: #EuroopaLehis, the European larch, #LarixDecidua; and #VeneLehis, the Siberian or Russian larch, #LSibirica syn. L. russica. Popular source of food for the famous #ProcessionaryCaterpillar, 1/4

#Möldre (?) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla After the name of a former farm ‘amalgamation’ built up by #JaanTeemant (1872-1941?), lawyer, attorney general and #Estonian #HeadOfState #(riigivanem) from 1925-1927 and 1932, presumed #assassinated by the NKVD in #1941. The actual meaning of #möldre is 1/4

#Lomonossovi M. (Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, 1711-1765) #Historical #Ajalooline #Russian #polymath, scientist, writer and poet, born in a #Pomor village close to #Kholmogory, about 60 km S of #Archangelsk and its now, sadly, dismantled 13-storey, 44-m high, reputedly world’s tallest wooden 1/2

#Le Coq A. (Albert Le Coq, dates unknown) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla Not a street: A. #LeCoqArena or #LillekülaStadium, after a certain #Belgian, #AlbertLeCoq, of very misty history... Said to be descended from #FrenchHuguenots fleeing #France in the 17th century, yet reported too to have 1/10

A quote from Mississipi Burning (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ...): "... man was so full of hate that he didn't know that being poor was what was killing him." Says a lot, really.

“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again). I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”

#Wiedemanni F.J. (Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, 1805-1887) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg #Linguist of #Swedish-#German descent, the first to describe #Estonian’s peculiar opposition of three phonological quantities (for more details, ask a native, they probably won’t be able to explain either); 1/3

#Lippe torn (0) #Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #KolmasLinn One-time tower between #Kõismäe and #Loewenschede towers. Built similarly and possibly at the same time as #Nunnadetagune (and #Saunatorn?). Fallen into disrepair and demolished by 1842 at the latest, only traces remain. #CityWall #Linnamüür

I think everyone knows the Republicans are not going to do anything about it and, like us, are just waiting for hamburger hell to have him.

#Viljandi (Viljandi) #Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to 1/2

#Vilisuu (Vilisuu) #Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna Lit. #WhistleMouth. Differing explanations: 1) Rarely-used bogey-man type threat for children: Ära mine õue, vilisuu tuleb!, Don’t go out, Vilisuu will get you! (lit. is coming). #Folklore character related to other #Estonian wind spirits, such as 1/3

#Esku (Esku) #Update #Värskendus #Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku Old farm/man’s name. Probably from an early #Scandinavian name, Askel, Æskil, Askil, Eskil, Áskæll, Áskell, short forms of #ON #Ásketill, broken down to mean #GodsHelmet (#áss [god], and #ketill, [helmet or kettle]). This, in Estonian, 1/4

#Vesse (Vesse) #Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sõjamäe Vesse (or Wesse), one of the leaders of the #JüriööÜlestõus (St. George’s Night Uprising) against the #German invaders, beginning 23rd April 1343. Vesse was from #Saaremaa where the uprising lasted about two years, and was relieved of his life in 1344. 1/2

#Volmre (?) #Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva Former #FarmName of obscure origin. A #Volbri / #Volmri once existed there, named after a farm dependency called #Wolmri (1913) which looks like a possible abbreviation of #Woldemar, but unsure. New road (decided 2019?) scheduled to replace a 1/2