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Work in progress

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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Heinavälja (Heinaväli)

Hayfield, grassland, meadow. This differs from Heinamaa in having natural or man-made boundaries where heinamaa is more open land.

Käopoja (Käopoeg)

Cuckoo chick, Offshoot of Käo. And just because poeg:poja means ‘boy’, it doesn’t give you leave to call it ‘cowboy’… Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Lagle.

Koovitaja (Koovitaja)

Curlew, Numenius spp., of which there are 2 species in Estonia:

  • suurkoovitaja (lit. greater koovitaja), N. arquata, the Eurasian, common, or just plain, curlew
  • väikekoovitaja (lit. lesser koovitaja), N. phaeopus, the Eurasian whimbrel

Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See Koskla.

Kannikese (Kannikene)

Violet or pansy, Viola spp. Kannikene is the diminutive of kannike (also violet, pansy) which is the diminutive of kann, an archaic term for flower, sometimes found as suffix in compound names, (see, e.g., Käokannu & Merikanni). Estonians like diminutives. First (alphabetically) ingredient of a floral arrangement within the Tehnika, Paldiski, Endla triangle of Kristiine’s Lilleküla Sub-district. See Kibuvitsa.

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