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Pidu (0)
Festival, feast, banquet, public celebration. Odd, the genitive of pidu is peo, and Laulupeo (1923) corrected itself two years after initially naming itself Laulupidu, and this was created in 1927... Crosses Leina suggesting the ‘party’ might actually have been the wake... But, no, named for nearby square hosting folk festivals, the nominative hinting at a longer history of festival usage.
Petrooleumi (Petrooleum)
Petroleum. Street created/named around 1904 after the Nobel Brothers’ petroleum depot. Albert did not make all his money from dynamite and gelignite, far from it: he and his brothers Ludvig (and later his son Emanuel) and Robert were among the world’s leading oil barons, with some 50% of global oil production coming from their company Branobel in Baku, Azerbaijan. Formerly known as Kerosini or Kerossini, part of an oil street-name group. See Bensiini. One-time location of Tallinn’s main station for trains to the south: Felliner Bahnhof II aka Willjandi Waksal II aka Reval-Hafenbahnhof aka Tallinn-Sadama raudteejaam. See Tallinn-Türi.
Pesa (Pesa)
Nest. Formerly known as Greeni from which the ‘G’ disagreeable to the Estonian palate often disappeared to produce Reeni and transliterated into German and Russian as Greenstraße and Ренская (Renskaya) indicating a personal name but whose remains a mystery. Also known as Linnu (1927-1959) with interlude as Kuslapuu (1940-1941). Anagram of Sepa.
Pendi (Pent)
Man’s name, but also ‘rat’. Former farm name. Nice. Although it’s ‘rat’ in the central and Mulgi dialects close to Pärnu, in Hiiumaa or western Saaremaa, it could mean bogeyman, malicious spirit or ghost, and in the eastern dialect near lake Peipus, naljahammas, i.e. joker, jester or wisecracker. Since it seems to be in the middle of a quarry, take, um, your pick.
