Kandle (Kannel)
Kannel, Estonian zither or psaltery, with strings of horsehair (usu. 4) or metal (usu. 7), but a wide variety of string numbers and types exist. Exquisite to listen to. Given its neighbours – Laulu, Vanemuise, etc. – perhaps attempting to associate the instrument with the mythical birth of Estonia. See also Narva.
Kanepi (Kanep)
Hemp. Word possibly derived from 6/7th‑C Proto-Latvian, but widespread Eurasian usage and interloan makes anything hard to pin down. Belonging to TT’s group of the tekstiilitoorainetenimeliste tänavad, or streets named after textile raw materials, in Sitsi Sub-district of Põhja-Tallinn. See also Lina. Can also mean cannabis, but not in this instance.
Kangru (Kangur)
Weaver, named after nearby textile plant initially called Balti Puuvillavabrik (Baltic Cotton Factory) (1898-1941). Underwent major destruction in WWII but phoenixed out and awarded the Order of the October Revolution in 1976 so there’s that… From ’41, there followed a series of name changes involving (or not) ‘Balti Manufaktuur’ until 1995, when acquired (?) and renamed as Baltex 2000 until its closure and loss of several hundred jobs in 2006. See Manufaktuuri, Ketraja and Sitsi. Another translation is ‘heap of granite’. Although the ‘heap of granite’ belies yet another reality. A kangur is also a Bronze age (8-7th-C BCE) burial ground, stone barrow or cairn-grave, where the dead were laid, head facing north, eyes towards the sun. There is a large site in Jõelähtme at ///disavows.fleshes.troll, some 20 km east of Tallinn town centre. Estonia has five villages called Kangru.
Kannustiiva (Kannustiib)
Two sorts: jalaka-kannustiib, the white letter hairstreak, Strymonidia w-album; and toominga-kannustiib, the black hairstreak butterfly, S. pruni. Part of a swarm of butterflies in the Lepiku District. Why are their young called caterpillars and not buttermaggots? (Actually, the word comes from Old French: chatepelose, hairy cat, reminiscent of woolly bears, see Piksepeni), later modified by the verb piller, to pillage, plunder, reflected in the Estonian name: röövik, plunderer, robber, etc.). See also Kedriku.