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A pile of ro ad signs half-trashed and piled up on a building-site, to indicate the site is in construction.

Website under construction, a couple of entries still pending, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1889 of the 1891 articles entered, 1 or 2 links may go nowhere.

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The Book

All author earnings of A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names to be donated to the foundation or donate here.

If anyone could help or advise as to the legal mechanism, it would be appreciated, thanks!

The Website

Not intended at the beginning, the present website is taking on a life of its own, with plans for relevant discussion forums, picture galleries and, over time, more non-streetname entries.

In theory, it will be funded by advertising relevant to people in Tallinn, to be determined.

A percentage of profits (also to be determined) to be donated to the foundation. 

Contact

Photograph of Simon Hamilton in Pikk street, Tallinn.

Apparently, a company that uses its owner's name is considered more trustworthy because they put themselves on the line.

This is me, in Tallinn this spring (2025), on a 3-month spree to check details, take photos (about 12K), explore (ave. 15K/day), and so on. I think I covered every street in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.

For information, please contact Simon at this address dot com, thanks!

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Pikakase (Pikakask)

Tall birch. Name chosen to replace its former one of Soone põik (NB: different location). Since a põik should at least have the decency of springing off a tänav or similar, and this one ‘started’ at Trummi then gave up halfway, its prior name was abandoned.

Pikri (Pikker)

Also spelled Piker, lit. the ‘long one’ (Slender Man?). Mythological personification of thunder, aka Pikse*, etc., probably related to Perkūnas* of the Lithuanians (*for both, see Pikse). Renamed (1979-1995) as Pasternaki M. during the late Soviet occupation). Part of a magico-mythological group. See Saarepiiga.

Piksepeni (Piksepeni)

Lit. Thunderstorm dog (peni, or penni or pini), is an alternative or dialect word for dog, more common in the southern half of Estonia, cf. Livonian piņ, but see also Eastern Sámi pienneoi in Eerikneeme, or beana in Northern(?) Sámi. Strictly, a woolly bear: caterpillar of the Arctiidae moth family, but also name of the scarlet tiger moth itself, Callimorpha dominula and probably used, as in English, for a variety of hairy caterpillars (see also Kannustiiva). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Päevakoera.

Pilliroo (Pilliroog)

Reed, bulrush.

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