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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!

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Kõrgepinge

Kõrgepinge (Kõrgepinge)

High tension, high voltage, near Siire. There are only a couple of hundred yards of actual road, most of this is a bicycle- or footpath, connecting others from Stroomi beach to Nõmme. See Lahepea and Harkumetsa.

Kõrge

Kõrge (0)

High, tall. Named for its relatively high location, so nominative (nimetav), not genitive (omastav) (see Intro)…

Kõpla

Kõpla (Kõblas)

Hoe or mattock. Alternative name for Kabli. Given its recent naming in 2023 (still unbuilt) alongside another harvest-related street, Kärbise, its other acception of spud or bark spud, aka peeling-iron, used to remove the bark from trees or timber seems more likely.

Kõnnu

Kõnnu (Kõnd)

Word of varying but similar meanings, here, probably: empty, largely unproductive and uncultivated land, while elsewhere in Estonia it could be – if not derived from a lost Germanic name – high, dry, hillocky and clayey, random woodland, or even wet, sodden land, leading, in a post-widely-agricultural society (for some, kõnd is an ‘extinct landscape term’) to the notion of wasteland or desolation. Not to be confused with kõnd:kõnni, meaning walk or walking. Sorta part of the sinister-street zone, see Kume. Known as Kanarbiku until 1958.

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