#Tähtpea (Tähtpea)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
#Scabious, gipsy rose, mournful widow, flowers all. #ScabiosaSpp., genus of the "Dipsacaceae family, flowers named for their use in treating #scabies and other skin disorders, not to be confused with related genera such as #Knautia (see
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#SahaLoo (Saha-Loo)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
Nothing to do with #Saha but refers to the two villages of Saha (home of the pre-1241 #SahaKabel (St Nikolaus chapel: ///raindrops.everything.squealing ) and ‘sacrifical’ stone (#MaarduHiiemetsaOhvrikivi: ///saunters.pokes.springy ) and #Loo
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#Tuulemurru (Tuulemurd)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
#Windfall, wind breakage (in a wood). Although kaart.tallinn.ee includes a half an inch of this in #Tallinn, it’s actually in #Laagri.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Weather #Ilm

#Koore (Koor)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
#Cream. Listed in #TT although not, actually, in #Tallinn. Be this as it may, we keep it for the entertainment value of which it has, for those of goldfish intellects, well, not much actually: formerly known as #Kirsi.
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#Vae (Vaag)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
#Weighing-#scales. Note: not content to have the most staggering number of declension/conjugation types (69, 170-odd or 594 according to source), or possibly because of having them, many #Estonian words can be declined in various ways.
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#Kitsekakra (Kitsekakar)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
Lit. #goat’s #camomile. Street no longer exists, but it’s a nice name, #leopard’s bane, #DoronicumOrientale, so it stays; not to be confused with #KitsekakarRistirohi, no English name, #SenecioDoronicum. And it was in #Maardu anyway :o(

#Soosambla (Soosammal)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
Angled #paludella moss or tufted fen-moss, #PaludellaSquarrosa. See also #Soovildiku. Actually a couple of microns on the wrong side of the track, in #Laagri, not #Tallinn but, hell, I like moss.

#Nature #Loodus
#Plants #Taimed
#Mosses #Samblad

Vägiheina (Vägihein)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
Mullein, Verbascum spp., aka Adam’s flannel (from Anglo-French moleine, related to mod. Fr mol, mou, for soft), Aaron’s rod, shepherd’s club, & hag-taper (black mullein), member of the figworts. Oops: not in Tallinn... Starts 80 m away, in Maardu...

#Harusambla (Harusammal?)
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#Moss species not traced. Given its location in the middle of a field of mosses, clearly assumed to be one of them. But what? Possibly a conflation of #HarilikKarusammal, great goldilocks or common hair/haircap moss, #PolytrichumCommune
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Äia (Äi)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
Father-in-law. Along with #äio or #äiolane (#äi:äio in #Võru dialect), it also means ‘devil’ and its attendant adjectival consequences: damn, bloody, fuck(ing)... shedding a grim light on Estonian in-law affinities. By the same logic, #äiatar, the
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#Kaali (Kaal[ikas])
Name of a field of ten craters on Saaremaa caused by a meteorite landing variously around 1690-1510 BCE (as dated by accelerator mass spectrometry) or, less probably, 7500 BCE (radiocarbon and palynological analyses). As it slowed down in...
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
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#Aaviku (Aavik)
Last entry for today's #emakeekepäev
Found on some maps of #Tallinn, where it doesn’t exist, but does in nearby #Rae. Named after a farm and not, regrettably, after the family's best-known scion: #JohannesAavik
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