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Sibulaküla (Sibulaküla) 
Onion village. Named after the small plots of ‘farmland’ or allotments around the Kaasani orthodox church, many of which grew onions, or after the church’s typical onion-shaped dome. The church – completed in 1721, severely damaged during the March 1944 bombing, icons looted in the 1970s, and partially burnt down on the night of 2009-07-15 – remains the oldest surviving wooden church in Tallinn. Its cemetery was probably destroyed in the early 1770s along with others in Tallinn following the Moscow plague riots of 1771. See Mõigu.
Pille (Pille)
A woman’s name, popular in the 1920s & 30s. Street co-created with its crossroad Tiiu in 2009, possibly influenced by Õilme. Name perhaps derived from Sibülle, Estonian spelling of Sibyl, the oracle, not sibul, the onion (see Sibulaküla).
Piksepeni (Piksepeni)
Lit. Thunderstorm dog (peni, or penni or pini), is an alternative or dialect word for dog, more common in the southern half of Estonia, cf. Livonian piņ, but see also Eastern Sámi pienneoi in Eerikneeme, or beana in Northern(?) Sámi. Strictly, a woolly bear: caterpillar of the Arctiidae moth family, but also name of the scarlet tiger moth itself, Callimorpha dominula and probably used, as in English, for a variety of hairy caterpillars (see also Kannustiiva). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Päevakoera.
