Pihlaka (Pihlakas)

Aka harilik pihlakas, rowan, common or European rowan, mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia. Considered a holy tree. Its berries are an important food for many Estonian birds. Group of berry streets near the Liiva kalmistu. See Pihlamarja.

Pihlamarja (Pihlamari)

Alternative name for pihlakamari, the rowanberry, 3 of which are native to Estonia:

• Harilik pihlakas, aka pihelgas, pihlak, pihl, pihlapuu and probably others, rowan or mountain-ash, Sorbus aucuparia
• Tuhkpihlakas, rock whitebeam, S. rupicola (some confusion as to Latin name)
• Valge pihlakas, whitebeam or common whitebeam, S. aria, aka Aria edulis
• Poop or Pooppuu (the titterlicious poop:pooba does not seem to occur elsewhere in Estonian and is thought to derive from either MLG bȫke or Swed. bok [beech], and Puu will tell you more so get your mind out of the gutter), Swedish whitebeam, Scandosorbus intermedia

Group of berry streets near the Liiva kalmistu. See Pohla.

Pihlametsa (Pihlamets)

Rowan wood, grove.

Piibelehe (Piibeleht)

Lit. pipe-leaf, alternative name for Maikellukese, lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis, etymology uncertain: piip:piibu prob. from Swed. pipa (pipe or whistle, the pipe being the whitish stem of a clay pipe, which could resemble one of its rhizomes), but the association of leht:lehe tacked onto piip:piibu suggests the whistling noise made by tensing two leaves, like blades of grass, between the fingers and blowing. In English, the tip of the rhizome (for some, the rhizome itself or even the entire plant) is called a ‘pip’, so we’re dealing with a much time-bemisted word here.

Piibri (Piiber)

Alternative name for the beaver from the German Biber, which seems to have gradually lost ground to the Russian loan Бобры, (bobr), switching the bastard ‘b’ for the comfortable ‘k’ to produce kobras, or harilik kobras, the European beaver, Castor fiber, native to Estonia. One of the streets named after the nearby Raku Sovhoos (see, also Sinirebase).