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Käbi (Käbi)
Cone (pine or otherwise, street parallel to Orava). (Also strobila, larval stage of jellyfish or segment of a tapeworm). Käbi ei kuku kännust kaugele, literally, the cone doesn’t fall far from the stump, usually rendered: a chip off the old block, but with, in earlier days perhaps, a slightly negative tone, since Kännu also means old fogey. On the other hand, since this is actually 3.5 km away, perhaps we ought give less credence to proverbs... Note too the abundance of k’s, a letter occupying a special place in Estonian hearts. At least 15% of Estonian words start with K.
Photo courtesy of unnamed Bluesky donor.
Kadaka asum (Kaddak) 
Juniper, name of 3 entities: see also Kadaka tee and Kadaka puiestee. Sub-district (asum) built on an eponymous former manor house / village known as Kaddak in the 18th C and belonging to Haabersti. The founding-name was almost certainly the common juniper bush, better known as harilik kadakas, Juniperus communis. As any gin drinker, Swiss, Dutch (another gin-producing country, hence the drink’s other name of Hollands...) or otherwise, would know, its berries are used for flavoring: Juniper, in French is genièvre (geneva), another old term for gin. Note, however, that the Swiss city comes from Celtic *genu- (mouth, as in estuary). Settlements date back to late Bronze Age. Kadaka also includes 9 quarters (kvarterid), (about the same as Wards, allasumid): Akadeemia, Kadaka I, II & III; Laki I & II; and Mäepealse I, II & III.
Trivia bonus: savin or savin juniper, Juniperus sabina, is called either sabiina kadakas or kasakakadakas, lit., Cossack juniper, possibly the longest word in Estonian based on only 4 letters where every second one is an ‘a’. Prove me wrong! The longest ‘word’ consisting in individual consonants plus the letter ‘a’ is samavanakalamajasadamarahatagavarapadajamarajakavatavad, a pretty meaningless linguistically-feasible Chomskian gibberish word claimed, generously, to sorta mean: the same-old with the same-old troubles in planning a Kalamaja harbour coffer route. Now you know. See also Käsperti J.
Kaevu (Kaev)
Well – Vanasse kaevu ei või sülitada enne kui veel uut valmis ei ole: don’t spit in your old well until your new one’s dug. Comes in 3 varieties: võllkaev (windlass well), vinnkaev (draw well) and pumpkaev (pump well).
