Names
Paabusilma (Paabusilm)
Lit. peacock’s eye. Probably päeva-paabusilm, the peacock butterfly, Inachis io, although it could also be one of the saturnid moths: kevad-paabusilm, emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia or hiid-paabusilm, great peacock moth, S. pyri, etc. Apparently a renaming of a disjointed NE stretch of Udeselja. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Piksepeni.
Paadi (Paat)
Boat. You guessed it, right next to Laeva down by the docks. This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague. Home to the beautiful wood-built Püha Siimeoni ja naisprohvet Hanna kirik (St. Simeon’s and St. Anne’s Cathedral Church) about whose lives marvellous tales are told! (see Ahtri).
Paagi (Paak)
1) Beacon, sea mark, buoy; 2) Tank, cistern, water-tower; 3) Lump. Close enough to one of Tallinn’s prime sludge producers on Paljassaare peninsula, so could be any of them but, given it was named along with two (now defunct) neighbors in June 1958 – Taagi and Toodri – all three of which elongated vertical structures, more a sea mark type of beacon than a buoy.
