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A pile of ro ad signs half-trashed and piled up on a building-site, to indicate the site is in construction.

Website under construction, many entries missing, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1814 of the 1884 articles (A to Z, with 50-odd Ts remaining) entered so far, so some 5% of the links go nowhere.

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The Book

All author earnings of A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names to be donated to the foundation or donate here.

If anyone could help or advise as to the legal mechanism, it would be appreciated, thanks!

The Website

Not intended at the beginning, the present website is taking on a life of its own, with plans for relevant discussion forums, picture galleries and, over time, more non-streetname entries.

In theory, it will be funded by advertising relevant to people in Tallinn, to be determined.

A percentage of profits (also to be determined) to be donated to the foundation. 

Contact

Photograph of Simon Hamilton in Pikk street, Tallinn.

Apparently, a company that uses its owner's name is considered more trustworthy because they put themselves on the line.

This is me, in Tallinn this spring (2025), on a 3-month spree to check details, take photos (about 12K), explore (ave. 15K/day), and so on. I think I covered every street in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.

For information, please contact Simon at this address dot com, thanks!

Names

Tammsaare A.H.

Tammsaare A.H.

(Anton Hansen Tammsaare, 1878-1940)

One of the best-known Estonian novelists, author of the 5-volume masterpiece, Tõde ja Õigus (Truth and Justice, 1926-1933) chronicling the change from life on the land to life in town in 20th-C Estonia, and currently being translated into 3 volumes. Vol. 1, Vargamäe, and Vol. 2, Indrek, are available from your local bookshop. See also his Tammsaare museum in Koidula. His portrait is on the 25-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Clearly, there’s never much money in it for writers... on the other hand, embryologists get even less. Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) – first to establish that mammals develop from eggs – is only worth a 2-krooni banknote, but he was one of Darwin’s major critics. Bastard.

Tanuma

Tanuma (Tanum)

Village lane between houses or fences (cf. tänav, in Intro, originally a village lane), or cow path. Mainly a south Estonian word, also tannom (Mulgi, Tartu and Võro dialects), or tammõq in Võro.

Täpiku

Täpiku (Täpik)

Dotted or speckled. But probably short for, in order, väike-täpikpunnpea, the grizzled skipper (as the late [drowned at sea] French sailor Eric Tabarly once wrote: a man overboard should never be on a boat in the first place...), Pyrgus malvae; täpikpõrnikas, the white-spotted rose beetle, a chafer or dung beetle which the French call the drap mortuaire, or winding sheet, Oxythyrea funesta; kase-täpikvaksik, the birch mocha, Cyclophora albipunctata. As to which one… Ooh, look: shiny object! Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Udeselja.

  1. Tapri
  2. Tare
  3. Tarja
  4. Tarna

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