Home
Kadaka tee (Kaddak)
Juniper, see Kadaka asum. Formerly Kaddakscher Weg, a roughly 2.7-km road running NE-SW from Mustamäe tee into an unenthusiastic field west of Rehe. See also Kadaka puiestee.
Kadaka puiestee (Kaddak)
Juniper, see Kadaka asum. Formerly Kaddaksche Promenade, splitting off some 800 m before the W end of Kadaka tee and running 4 km NNE-SSW down to the Rohula-Pärnu roundabout in Pääsküla. Avenue also known from 1940-1941 as Kommunaari puiestee, after either the Paris Communards or the Noored Kommunaarid review written by Estonian communists in Russia from 1920-1922 or, far less likely, the town of Kommunaar near St Petersburg (a ‘Kommunaar’ footwear and leather-goods firm took up the banner from 1944). See also Kadaka tee.
Kaja (Kaja)
Echo.
Kalamehe (Kalamees)
Fisherman, angler. One of an occupational street-name group. See Meremehe. Kala is derived from the proto Finno-Ugric *kala, fish (see also Karelian, Finnish & Veps kala, Hungarian hal, Sámi guöllé, Nenets, халя, etc.) and related to Uralic (Mansi: хул) and Altaic (Tungusic: kul, salmon; Khalka Mongolian: xalim, whale, presumably of the biblical prophet-swallowing variety, hard to imagine them having a word for it otherwise). Clearly a very old word, although not corroborated by the last example: Christianity was first known in Mongolia in the late 13th/early 14th C. Further away again, we have Proto-Eskimo *iqałud, Sumerian kad, and even Somali, kalluun, all also fish. Stepping into very murky waters, along with other basic words such as Uralic *nime giving Estonian nimi, and maybe related to Sanskrit nā́man-, Latin nomen and English name, our PIE *kʷalo-, large fish (cf. Latin squalus, dogfish or ‘large sea fish’), Old Prussian kalis, shad, and Old English hwæl, giving present-day whale suggest possible common origins going back at least 5000 years.
