Rahu tee (Rahu)

There are two streets called Rahu: tänav and tee (see Rahu tänav), this is in Lasnamäe, an intended prospekt, or tree-lined avenue (influenced by St Petersburg’s Nevski Prospekt), planned by shiny Soviet propagoptimism to run parallel to then Oktobri prospekt, now Laagna tee), reduced to a housing-estate’s service road, with much of the original track hiding in the bushes.

• LASNAMÄE
• Katleri

Rahu tänav (1] Rahu; 2] Rahu; 3] Rahu; or 4] Rahk)

There are two streets called Rahu: tänav and tee (see Rahu tee), this is in Nõmme, an ordinary mind-you-own-business street. Various meanings: a) rahu [1] i.e. reef, a geographical feature found in more littoral areas, and rahu [2] means quiet, but given its location next to Raudtee, calling it quiet, calm or tranquil may seem like misleading advertising; on the other hand, Hiiu-Rahu kalmistu (cemetery), a place of quiet, tranquility if ever there was one, is just across the track. Then again, the equally possible translation of shingle, gravel, rubble or scree (rahk [4]) seems appropriate too and, despite nearby hospitals, we will exclude kidney or gland (rahu [3]) as too gruesome a street name, even for Tallinn. Checking Kivi’s TT, we find it was known as Friedenstrasse in 1922, so peace and quiet all round it is.

• Hiiu

Rähni (Rähn)

Woodpecker. The following breed in Estonia:

• Hallpea-rähn aka hallrähn, grey-headed woodpecker, Picus canus
• Laanerähn aka kolmvarvas-rähn, three-toed woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus
• Musträhn, black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius
• Suur-kirjurähn, great spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major
• Tamme-kirjurähn, middle spotted woodpecker, Den. medius
• Valgeselg-kirjurähn, white-backed wood­pecker, Den. leucotos
• Väike-kirjurähn, lesser spotted woodpecker, Den. minor.

Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets.See also Rästa.