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 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.
