Kadaka (Kaddak) 

Juniper, name of 3 entities: a Sub-district (asum) built on an eponymous former manor house known as Kaddak in the 18^th C and belonging to Haabersti (and the name of a village in Rae, close to Tallinn); a street in Lilleküla’s Marja Ward (allasum); and an approx. 4-km avenue running NNE-SSW through Mustamäe and Nõmme, once known as Kaddaksche Promenade. The founding-name was almost certainly the common juniper bush, better known as harilik kadakas, Juniperus communis. As any gin drinker, Swiss, Dutch (another gin-producing country, hence the drink’s other name of Hollands...) or otherwise, would know, its berries are used for flavoring: Juniper, in French is genièvre (geneva), another old term for gin. Note that the Swiss city’s name comes ultimately from Celtic *genu- (mouth, as in estuary). From 1940-1941, Kadaka puiestee was also known as Kommunaari puiestee, after either the Paris Communards or the Noored Kommunaarid review written by Estonian communists in Russia from 1920-1922 or, less likely, the town of Kommunaar near St Petersburg (a “Kommunaar” footwear and leather-goods firm took up the banner from 1944). Settlements date back to late Bronze Age. See also Talviku. Kadaka also includes 9 quarters (kvarterid), (about the same as Wards, allasumid): Akadeemia, Kadaka I, II & III; Laki I & II; and Mäepealse I, II & III.

Trivia bonus: savin or savin juniper, Juniperus sabina, is called either sabiina kadakas or kasakakadakas, lit., Cossack juniper, possibly the longest word in Estonian based on only 4 letters where every second one is an ‘a’. Prove me wrong! The longest ‘word’ consisting in individual consonants plus the letter ‘a’ is samavanakalamajasadamarahatagavarapadajamarajakavatavad, and is claimed, generously, to sorta mean: The same-old with the same-old troubles in planning a Kalamaja harbour coffer route. See also Käsperti J.