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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.
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.
