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Almshouse / Hospital / Leprosarium / Poorhouse courtyard. Plot of land surrounding Jaani Seek, the St-John’s Almshouse.
Salaoja (Salaoja)
Sub-base layer, (lit. secret/hidden) stream. One of the various layers of highway construction allowing outflow of water from beneath the base layer and surface course. Another new (2023) and as yet unbuilt street. Unusual street-name, but kudos to engineers, who once taught us fire.
Säde (Säde)
Spark, Estonian translation of Lenin’s (Oops, the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party’s) short-lived newspaper of that name, Искра (Iskra). As the joke went: Lenin called Stalin and asked: “How do you like the latest Iskra?” – “Very nice paper, Vladimir Ilyich, very soft.” The genitive of säde is actually Sädeme. So presumably either because used as a nominative (not very likely) or to emphasize the titular nature of the spark in question, this is an alternative genitive (see Süda P.). Soviet occupation renaming (1948-1987) of Pühavaimu. Known as Iskra for a brief spell in 1941, and Hel(l)iste (1885-1921), Heiligengeiststraße (1907) and hilligööst ulits (1732) then all the way back to hilgen gheestes strate (1405), variations of holy/holiness or holy ghost in German, Esto-Germano-Russian and MLG, god knows...
Reseeda (Reseeda)
Mignonette, reseda, Reseda spp., formerly used as a yellow dye. Interesting street: existed on paper (only?) from 1958-06-13 to 2010-02-10.
