Names
Pelgulinna asum (Pelgulinn) 
Lit. town of asylum, refuge or shelter which, legend has it, was due to it being a common hiding-place for criminals and outlaws in the 18th C (Pelgulinn is right next to Kelmiküla). This may be true. Wiedemanni translates it as Freistadt, which could be one of two things: 1) a self-governing city (let’s say town, or zone), independent of the surrounding region, which sounds unlikely unless, for example (and I’m spit-balling here), the prime mover behind its development, Johann Grabby (or other player) was able to obtain special tax concessions for creating his brick-making factory there in 1879 (see Telliskivi), on land which was essentially unproductive marsh (according to Folio 7 of Friedrich Eurich’s 1880-82 map, it was named Quartal I., Quarter No.1, or Linna Soo, City Marsh); or 2) as per legend, a special legal zone where asylum was granted and asylum seekers could live, outlawry laws have often allowed this sort of refuge on inhospitable terrains, which does seem a bit closer to reality but still a tad too romanticized for some people’s taste. Considered a slum in the late-19th C. See Pelgulinna.
Pelguranna (Pelgurand)
Shore of refuge, safe haven (see Pelgulinna asum). First recorded 1938. Street and Sub-district named after the beach of this name (popularly known as Stroomi rand since 1939), perhaps punning on the idea of it being a safe (i.e. nice) place to swim.
Pendi (Pent)
Man’s name, but also ‘rat’. Former farm name. Nice. Although it’s ‘rat’ in the central and Mulgi dialects close to Pärnu, in Hiiumaa or western Saaremaa, it could mean bogeyman, malicious spirit or ghost, and in the eastern dialect near lake Peipus, naljahammas, i.e. joker, jester or wisecracker. Since it seems to be in the middle of a quarry, take, um, your pick.
Peoleo (Peoleo)
Oriole (Oriolus oriolus) a bright yellow (male) or drabber greenish (female) migratory bird, in Estonia from mid-May to mid-August, as reflected in its older Ger. name Pfingstvogel (Pentecost bird) for its usually arriving in May. Its Eng. name is said to come from either its serendipitously similarly-sounding song ‘or-iii-ole’ or from its color called aureolus (golden) until Thomas Aquinas’s one-time teacher, the polymath Aristotelian Albertus Magnus, decided that oriolus was good enough. And so it is. It’s Estonian name is uncertain, probably a rhyming duplication of peo, poss. from Pidu or peo:peo (hand, palm), but given is multiple synonyms ranging from piho (old spelling), through tepoteo, kikuviu, peebupiu (all prob. just onomatopœa), kräunuja kull (hawk that goes ‘kräun’?), hommikumaa täht (star of the east) to kuuseööbik (spruce nightingale), probably just because it’s a cute name for a cute bird.
Pesa (Pesa)
Nest. Formerly known as Greeni from which the ‘G’ disagreeable to the Estonian palate often disappeared to produce Reeni and transliterated into German and Russian as Greenstraße and Ренская (Renskaya) indicating a personal name but whose remains a mystery. Also known as Linnu (1927-1959) with interlude as Kuslapuu (1940-1941). Anagram of Sepa.
Peterburi (0)
Saint Petersburg (1703-1914 & 1991-), sometimes Peterburg in the nominative, capital of Russian Empire for over 200 years. Previously known as Petrograd (1914-1924) and Leningrad (1924-1991) and may also be known locally as just Питер (Peter). Founded a few km upstream of Nyenskans, a Swedish fortress on the Neva captured at the end of the Great Northern War. No prizes for guessing the street was renamed Leningradi from 1948 to 1992. In the early 20th C, St Peterburg, with some 60,000 Estonians living there, was ‘the largest Estonian city’. This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague.
