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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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Arukaskede (Arukased [pl.])

Silver or lowland birches (Sing.: arukask), Betula pendula, aka kask, arukõiv (kõiv is a dialectal, and probably older, name for birch), õmmik (the beneedled), etc. Since Aru or arro also means dry land, this may well reflect the tree’s habitat.

Asfaldi (Asfalt)

Asphalt. Named after nearby asphalt depot. Part of a loose construction-materials group. See Betooni.

Astla (Astel)

Barbed spear, thorn, spine, sting. Given its location, the meaning here is probably thorn. One of the Mähe flower-name group, see Jasmiini.

Astri (Aster)

Aster spp., genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. A fascinating piece of trivia about this flower is that the number of petals is a Fibonacci Number, i.e. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... (Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2, where F0 = 0 & F1 = 1), a series revealed (although apparently known by Indian mathematicians as far back as 200 BCE) by Leonardo of Pisa, aka Fibonacci (= son [filius] of Bonaccio), in his Liber Abaci (1202) to calculate a theoretical growth in rabbit numbers. The book was also one of the prime movers introducing Arabic numerals, algebra, and the ‘number’ 0 (using it became illegal in 13-14th-C Florence) to Europe. Mathmatophobes, you now have a name to play darts with. See also Kreegi.

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