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 18^th 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).

Kaevuri (Kaevur)

Miner, digger. One of a mini trade-name area, see also Sepa. Despite its superficial and/or coincidental resemblance to ‘cave’ and ‘excavate’, the word is related to other close-neighbor FU terms such as Livonian kouvõ, Finnish and Votic kaivaa for to dig or dig up, and more distantly from eastern FU languages for spade: Erzya, kojme; Moksha, kajmä; Nganasan, kaibu, etc. Even so, the two PIE roots – *keue-, swelling, arch, cavity, and *keup-, a hollow (see Palli) – are not a million miles away, and digging is obviousy a very early and widespread human activity. Interestingly, ‘alcove’ (see Teeääre) comes via Spanish alcoba itself from Arabic, either al-qubba meaning a dome, cupula or small bedroom, or al-kauf, a nook for sleeping, in Hebrew kubbah, קבה, a round, vaulted tent, with neighboring words such as kabar, קבר, for to bury or pile earth on top of a dead body, and kubbaath, קבעת, for a chalice of flowers or a cup used for drinking, all of which suggesting a curved shape. Interestingly, the road is still cobbled and looks like it’s been that way for hundreds of years.