Names
Kajaka (Kajakas)
Tallinn: cold, wet and fishy coastal harbor town... that means seagulls, kittiwakes, gulls and mews. As they say in Pöide: Narri küll meest, ära narri mehe kübärät, Laugh at the man, not at his hat... Breeding in Estonia are, and since there’s a whole beachful, a list is best:
- Harksaba-kajakas, Sabine’s gull, Larus sabini
- Hõbekajakas, herring gull, L. argentatus
- Jääkajakas, glaucous gull, L. hyperboreus
- Kalakajakas, common gull or sea mew, L. canus, see Lõuka
- Kaljukajakas, black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla
- Karbuskajakas aka Mustpea-kajakas, Mediterranean gull, L. melanocephalus
- Koldjalg-hõbekajakas, Caspian gull, L. cachinnans
- Lõuna-hõbekajakas, yellow-legged gull, L. michahellis (not a spelling mistake for michaelis, but named after the short-lived (died of dysentery) Bavarian zoologist Karl Michahelles [1807-34])
- Merikajakas, great black-backed gull, L. marinus
- Naerukajakas, black-headed gull, L. ridibundus
- Polaarkajakas, Iceland gull, L. glaucoides
- Roosakajakas, Ross’s gull, Rhodostethia rosea
- Tõmmukajakas, lesser black-backed gull, L. fuscus
- Vandelkajakas, ivory gull, Pagophila eburnea
- Väikekajakas, little gull, L. minutus
Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Kauri.
Kakumäe (Kakumäe) 
Reads like loaf/bannock or owl hill, but meaning uncertain. For some, kaku comes from kakk:kaku, earless or wood owl, Strix spp., while folk etymology prefers the more romantic (wut?...) katk:katku, plague, from a plague-epoch mass grave, but which plague: 1211-12 or 1532, is not clear? Neither is that convincing. One intriguing possibility is that it’s a ‘loan’ from an earlier reference to Õismäe (next-door Sub-district) where its name may (how?...) be derived from kukits, bunchberry or dwarf cornel, (Cornus, formerly Chamaepericlymenum, spp.), which grew extensively in the area. Spelling has ranged from Kakamaye (first mentioned 1467) through Kakomiag with a village named Kaggomeggi in 1726 to Kakomäggi and Kackemaye. Lent its name to a Haabersti summer manor, and/or locality including peninsula (poolsaar), cape (neem), spit (nina), and bar (leetselg, sandbank not bottlebank) in NW Tallinn. Former location of various fishing villages. For the erratically enthusiastic, there is a Mustkivi on the tip of the peninsula at ///target.lagoon.continuation (or ///swell.impassioned.buffeting)(?), see Rändrahnu.
