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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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Sinilille

Sinilille (Sinilill)

Hepatica, liverleaf, Hepatica. Its various names reflect its different properties: color (this variety), lit. blue flower; Hepatica, ‘of the liver’ for its three-lobed, liver-shaped leaves; maksalehed, liver leaves, ditto (once believed to be a sort of theological homeopathy that since God made the leaves look like the liver, they must be good for it…, but God also made it poisonous in large-enough doses); or its need for cold and snow: keltsalill (frozen-ground flower), lumelill (snow-flower), etc. See also Astri.

Sinika

Sinika (Sinikas)

Bog whortleberry, bog or northern bilberry, Vaccinium uliginosum. One of a group of berry streets in Lilleküla Sub-district. See also Sõstra. Also a colloquial word for ‘bruise’, or even bluish tint.

Silmu

Silmu (Silm)

Lamprey. Two sorts: jõesilm, European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis, and ojasilm, European brook lamprey, L. planeri. Interestingly, aged 21, Sigmund Freud wrote a paper on the anatomy of the lamprey’s notochord (Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nerven-wurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes Petromyzon planeri [name since corrected]). Part of a fish group. See also Säina.

Silmiku

Silmiku (Silmik)

Satyr, wood-nymph (sorry to raise your hopes: a satyrid, more prosaically known as brown butterfly), or something with eyes. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Sinitiiva.

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