Names
Pardi (Part)
Duck, teal, pintail, etc. Numerous species breeding in Estonia:
- Ameerika piilpart, green-winged teal, Anas carolinensis
- Ameerika viupart, American wigeon, A. americana
- Luitsnokk-part, northern shoveler, A. clypeata
- Piilpart, Eurasian teal, A. crecca
- Ristpart, common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
- Rägapart, garganey, A. querquedula
- Rääkspart, gadwall, A. strepera
- Sinikael-part, mallard, A. platyrhynchos
- Sini-rägapart, blue-winged teal, A. discors
- Soopart aka pahlsaba-part, northern pintail, A. acuta
- Tulipart, ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea
- Viupart, eurasian wigeon, A. penelope
Part, literally, of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets (see Pardiloigu for very witty pun…). See also Pöialpoisi. Modern classical-music lovers may not like to know that their favorite Estonian composer’s name translates, inter alia, as ‘Dignity Duck’.
Pardiloigu (Pardiloik)
Duck puddle. Wut?... Loik:loigu could be stretched to include ‘pond’, but. Probably named for reasons of alliteration and consonance with its neighbor Pärnulõuka co-created in 2007. Even locals found the name, er, odd. Part road, part path, part pun (Est. part = Eng. duck).
Pargi (Park)
Park, next to Sanatooriumi. Street crossing Põllu!
Pärituule (Pärituul)
Fair wind, wind due astern, tailwind, lit. a ‘from’ wind. One of a wind-themed group. See Tuuleveski.
Pärja (Pärg)
Wreath, garland, or chaplet. Two streets, same name: one, extant, in Pääsküla, known until 1925 as Шаховская чл, probably after Prince Sergey Vladimirovich Shakhovskoy (1852-1894), governor-general of Estonia from 1885 to 1894, chairman of the committee in charge of building the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and patron of the Pühtitsa Convent (Kuremäe Jumalaema Uinumise nunnaklooster), 40 km WSW of Narva. Known also, temporarily (1940-1941) as Jänese (hare), but definitively Pärja (Kranzstraße, Ger., and Венковая ул., Rus.) from 1926; the other, in Pelgulinn, was paved and baptized (with a nice font for the typeface) in 1930 but recognized the folly of its ways and converted to its synonym Vaniku, with a bit of arm-twisting, in 1959. There are Dark Hints suggesting that the former ceded part of its length to Tammepärja in 1989.
Parmu (Parm)
Horsefly, gadfly, Tabanidae. Largest of the true flies, major pollinators but nasty biters. Estonia is home to 1% of the world’s 3000-odd species. Part of an insect street-name group. See also Sipelga.
