Kakumäe (Kakumäe) :

Reads like loaf/bannock or owl hill, but meaning uncertain. For some, kaku comes from kakk:kaku, earless or wood owl, Strix spp., while folk etymology prefers the more romantic (wut?...) katk:katku, plague, from a plague-epoch mass grave, but which plague: 1211-12 or 1532 is not clear? Neither is that convincing. One intriguing possibility is that it’s a ‘loan’ from an earlier reference to Õismäe (next-door Sub-district) where its name may (how?...) be derived from kukits, bunchberry or dwarf cornel, (Cornus, formerly Chamaepericlymenum, spp.), which grew extensively in the area. Spelling has ranged from Kakamaye (first mentioned 1467) through Kakomiag with a village named Kaggomeggi in 1726 to Kakomäggi and Kackemaye. Lent its name to a Haabersti summer manor, and/or locality including peninsula (poolsaar), cape (neem), spit (nina), and bar (leetselg, sandbank not bottlebank) in NW Tallinn. Former location of various fishing villages. For the erratically enthusiastic, there is a Mustkivi on the tip of the peninsula at ///target.lagoon.continuation, see Rändrahnu.