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#Põldma (?)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Another former farm name, #põldmaa would be arable land and it was not uncommon for the last ‘a’ to be dropped from the -maa in farm/family names.

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October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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an #address not necessarily being a thoroughfare but a plot of land. #Anagram of #Kitsas.

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September 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#Kivipere (Kivipere)
#Stone #homestead, probably an old farm name.

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September 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#Kivipere (Kivipere)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva
#Stone #homestead, probably an old farm name.

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September 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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street and Sub-district were thus named before his (and obviously her) birth after the #Lepiku farm in the then village of Lepiku.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#Sõstramäe (Sõstramägi) #Allasum
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Mooni
Former farm name: lit. currant homestead (see #Mäe for discussion).
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August 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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(book of names) claims it has long been used in #Estonian coastal areas, and where the ‘jumala’ fits in is unclear. Kiiver also suggested to be an #MLG loan but the ice is too thin for me.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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This possibly explains #Tammsaare A. H. choosing it to name the stunted personification of death, martyrdom and self-loathing in his 5-volume masterpiece #TõdeJaõigus (Truth and Justice).
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August 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#Plaasi (?)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Väo
Old farm name, also known as Plaasna (1920-25) and Plasi (1913). Poss. a colloquialization of Blasius (Basil[ius], or Blaise in English), rendered variously as Ulas, Laas, Vlasius or Wlasius.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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the manor’s name onto his to become Eduard von Stackelberg-Sutlem. See #Valdeku.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#Suurekivi (Suurekivi)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Large stone. Former farm name after the eponymous #ErraticBoulder (see #Rändrahnu) at ///thank.crabby.pioneers. For other erratic-themed locations, see #Tulekivi.
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July 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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name, probably a diminutive of Est. #Mihkel, calqued on #German #Michael, so possibly after an Est. farm manager. Name replaces that of eastern half of former #Kiviaia. Glitch: KNAB puts it in #Laiaküla.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#Estonia imported the #BBC2’s ghastly example of infantile dementia as #Teletupsud. Also type of nicotine-free Swedish-style snuff. Former farm name.
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July 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Exploring Norwegian Genealogy, a Book Review skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/07/exploring-norwegian-genealogy-book.html

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Cover of "Exploring Norwegian Genealogy"; Christinsen, Liv Birgit and Strand, Margaret Helen, Exploring Norwegian Genealogy, Orting, Washington, Family Roots Publishing Co., LLC, 2023.
July 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#Kristeni (?)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
Most likely from Cristen / Kristjan < Christian). Name of a former local farm/farming-family. Farm group. See also #Kurmu.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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April 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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#Vahepere (Vahepere)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
The name of a former local farm/farming-family: ‘the farm in between’ or ‘middle farm’. Farm group. See also #Eevardi.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#Oti (Ott)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Man’s name, and old name for bear, with evidently an alternative genitive in the town of #Otepää (bear’s head), location of historical hillfort (first recorded in the #NovgorodFirstChronicle as #МедвѣжюГолову, or Медвежья Голова
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April 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#Pendi (Pent)
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...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#Toomapere (Toomapere)
Thomas’s family, household, farm. Farm group. See also #Tõnu.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre
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#Farms #Talud
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April 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#Otsatalu (Otsatalu) - Revised version
Ots:otsa has various meanings, two that fit here: either tip, top, front or back of something, or a man’s name, so it could be the last farm on a village border, or Ots’ farm.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#Otsatalu (Otsatalu)
End-farm.
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April 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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#VanaUmboja (Vana-Umboja)
See #Umboja. Street added to the opposite (western) side of the #Kakumäe peninsula, with one on one side and one on the other raising questions as to the location of the orginal farm.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Põllumäe (Põllumägi)
Hill homestead (see #Mäe for discussion). Another farm name. See also #Taludevahe.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Vismeistri
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April 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Mirta (?)
Former farm name.
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April 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Hansu (Hans)
Uncertain. TAAK gives it as the name of a former farm, but not listed as such in KNAB. According to Hamilton’s 3rd Law of Odonymy (see #Aedvere) and the street’s year of naming (2004),
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March 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM