ja kunagi oli ka härjapea jõgi
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July 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
ja kunagi oli ka härjapea jõgi
Üldse kesklinna elanikuna näen, et inimesed loevad suure hoolega igasuguseid infotahvleid, mis puudutavad ajalugu, olgu see sünagoogi, kloostri või Härjapea kunagises asukohas. Ja abs kõiki pinke linnaruumis kasutatakse.
May 23, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Üldse kesklinna elanikuna näen, et inimesed loevad suure hoolega igasuguseid infotahvleid, mis puudutavad ajalugu, olgu see sünagoogi, kloostri või Härjapea kunagises asukohas. Ja abs kõiki pinke linnaruumis kasutatakse.
#Härjapea (Härjapea)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Literally, ox-head. Two main interpretations: 1) as reflected in its earlier #German name, #Kleestraβe (1881, #clover street), after the copious clover covering the land the road was originally built on, both keskmine ristik, zigzag clover,
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#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Literally, ox-head. Two main interpretations: 1) as reflected in its earlier #German name, #Kleestraβe (1881, #clover street), after the copious clover covering the land the road was originally built on, both keskmine ristik, zigzag clover,
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May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Härjapea (Härjapea)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Literally, ox-head. Two main interpretations: 1) as reflected in its earlier #German name, #Kleestraβe (1881, #clover street), after the copious clover covering the land the road was originally built on, both keskmine ristik, zigzag clover,
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#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Literally, ox-head. Two main interpretations: 1) as reflected in its earlier #German name, #Kleestraβe (1881, #clover street), after the copious clover covering the land the road was originally built on, both keskmine ristik, zigzag clover,
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Oleneb Härjapea seisukorrast, kui veetase on tema hinnangul kehvapoolne, küllap teeb ka avalikud märgalad, tead ju teda küll, hingega asja kallal ja lõpuni välja.
July 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oleneb Härjapea seisukorrast, kui veetase on tema hinnangul kehvapoolne, küllap teeb ka avalikud märgalad, tead ju teda küll, hingega asja kallal ja lõpuni välja.
Muide, me otsustasime reedel garaaži kooperatiivi poistega, et on aeg loodusele meilgi tagasi anda. Üldkoosoleku otsuse kohaselt hakkab Peedu märgalade taastamise programmi raames Härjapea jõge välja kaevama, ehk ka mõned tiigid ja paisud sinna, et ka linnarahvas saaks elurikkust sääskedena nautida.
July 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Muide, me otsustasime reedel garaaži kooperatiivi poistega, et on aeg loodusele meilgi tagasi anda. Üldkoosoleku otsuse kohaselt hakkab Peedu märgalade taastamise programmi raames Härjapea jõge välja kaevama, ehk ka mõned tiigid ja paisud sinna, et ka linnarahvas saaks elurikkust sääskedena nautida.
see on egiptlaste härjapea hieroglüüf mis siis eri rahvastel muundatud sai.
September 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
see on egiptlaste härjapea hieroglüüf mis siis eri rahvastel muundatud sai.
#Veskiposti (Veskipost)
Station on the #TallinnViljandi narrow-gauge railway. Short for #Veskipostijaam, where postijaam was a combination railway station cum postal service, as in stage post, probably named after a former watermill on the nearby now-covered #Härjapea river.
#Kesklinn#Juhkentali
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Station on the #TallinnViljandi narrow-gauge railway. Short for #Veskipostijaam, where postijaam was a combination railway station cum postal service, as in stage post, probably named after a former watermill on the nearby now-covered #Härjapea river.
#Kesklinn#Juhkentali
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April 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Veskiposti (Veskipost)
Station on the #TallinnViljandi narrow-gauge railway. Short for #Veskipostijaam, where postijaam was a combination railway station cum postal service, as in stage post, probably named after a former watermill on the nearby now-covered #Härjapea river.
#Kesklinn#Juhkentali
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Station on the #TallinnViljandi narrow-gauge railway. Short for #Veskipostijaam, where postijaam was a combination railway station cum postal service, as in stage post, probably named after a former watermill on the nearby now-covered #Härjapea river.
#Kesklinn#Juhkentali
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however, while the Lithuanian and Latvian meant horse, and the Prussian gelding, other neighboring Finnic languages (#Finnish, #Livonian, #Veps, #Votic, etc.) amble around ox, steer, bull, etc., which EES convincingly suggests is due to a perception of function (draft) rather than form (animal).
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#härg is said to be a ‘Baltic’ loan word, with modern-day #Lithuanian and #Latvian being #žirgas and #zirgs respectively, and former #Prussian #sirgis. Drop the initial letter and the result is irg-, close enough to erg and ärg, the adding an ‘h’ to which is an #Estonian evidence. Interestingly,
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#Tiigiveski (Tiigiveski)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
Pond mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
Pond mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
June 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Tiigiveski (Tiigiveski)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
Pond mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Keldrimäe
Pond mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
#Kivisilla (Kivisild)
Stone bridge, after one that used to span the #Härjapea river. Formerly, a suburb of #Tallinn (roughly, today’s #Maakri, #Rävala, #Tartu & #Tornimäe... area). Renamed under Soviet occupation (1957-1991), along with #Reimani V., as #Anveldi J..
#Kesklinn #Maakri #Kompassi
Stone bridge, after one that used to span the #Härjapea river. Formerly, a suburb of #Tallinn (roughly, today’s #Maakri, #Rävala, #Tartu & #Tornimäe... area). Renamed under Soviet occupation (1957-1991), along with #Reimani V., as #Anveldi J..
#Kesklinn #Maakri #Kompassi
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tiigiveski (Tiigiveski)
#Pond #mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Mill #Veski
#Water #Vesi
#Pond #mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Mill #Veski
#Water #Vesi
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tiigiveski (Tiigiveski)
#Pond #mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Mill #Veski
#Water #Vesi
#Pond #mill. Park, not street, named after one-time mill dating back to the 13th C, once the largest on the #Härjapea river in #Keldrimäe, on a weir-retained pond.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Mill #Veski
#Water #Vesi
moats and watermills with water from #Ülemiste lake as well as #Tiigiveski and #Härjapea rivers date back to 1345, so the word could also mean viaduct. A very small part of the (now?) underground system is exhibited outside #Süda P. No.2.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
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April 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
moats and watermills with water from #Ülemiste lake as well as #Tiigiveski and #Härjapea rivers date back to 1345, so the word could also mean viaduct. A very small part of the (now?) underground system is exhibited outside #Süda P. No.2.
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#Seltri (Selters)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Maakri
#Seltzer, or just plain soda or carbonated water, named after the #German town of Selters known for its mineral water. Calling a street which led directly to the then #Härjapea river cum #Tallinn waste-disposal duct is as misleading as the
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#Historical #Ajalooline
#Maakri
#Seltzer, or just plain soda or carbonated water, named after the #German town of Selters known for its mineral water. Calling a street which led directly to the then #Härjapea river cum #Tallinn waste-disposal duct is as misleading as the
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October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#Seltri (Selters)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Maakri
#Seltzer, or just plain soda or carbonated water, named after the #German town of Selters known for its mineral water. Calling a street which led directly to the then #Härjapea river cum #Tallinn waste-disposal duct is as misleading as the
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#Historical #Ajalooline
#Maakri
#Seltzer, or just plain soda or carbonated water, named after the #German town of Selters known for its mineral water. Calling a street which led directly to the then #Härjapea river cum #Tallinn waste-disposal duct is as misleading as the
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(bull), or a stone roller used to haul ships over land, a technique used by the #Varangians (with logs, not stone) on their way to the #BlackSea and if the #ancientGreeks could see a #GreatBear in the shape of a #saucepan, anything is possible. Notwithstanding the previous entry (see #Härgmäe),
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
(bull), or a stone roller used to haul ships over land, a technique used by the #Varangians (with logs, not stone) on their way to the #BlackSea and if the #ancientGreeks could see a #GreatBear in the shape of a #saucepan, anything is possible. Notwithstanding the previous entry (see #Härgmäe),
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Haryenpe (1363). What do we have? If these are actual precursors of härjapea, which they may well be, what would ‘ox head’ have signified? A #geographical feature? The site of a #sacrifice? The question is open. One suggestion in DEPn is that a härjapea might also have been the name for a #pulle
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Haryenpe (1363). What do we have? If these are actual precursors of härjapea, which they may well be, what would ‘ox head’ have signified? A #geographical feature? The site of a #sacrifice? The question is open. One suggestion in DEPn is that a härjapea might also have been the name for a #pulle
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#КраснаяПлощадь (Krasnaya ploshchad' [square]) was ‘beautiful’. Places are named for their distinctive character (perceived or otherwise...), as we’ve seen before: the Iron Gate, By the Riverbank, Church Street, etc. The earliest records of this name include Haryenpe (1283), Haryempe (1345),
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#КраснаяПлощадь (Krasnaya ploshchad' [square]) was ‘beautiful’. Places are named for their distinctive character (perceived or otherwise...), as we’ve seen before: the Iron Gate, By the Riverbank, Church Street, etc. The earliest records of this name include Haryenpe (1283), Haryempe (1345),
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believing an association between unrelated phenomena (think #JesusToast, etc.) and what I call #topophenia is believing one between a placename and an unrelated phenomenon, for example, #Moscow’s ‘Red Square’ being named for ‘redness’, communist or otherwise, when the archaic meaning of #красная
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May 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
believing an association between unrelated phenomena (think #JesusToast, etc.) and what I call #topophenia is believing one between a placename and an unrelated phenomenon, for example, #Moscow’s ‘Red Square’ being named for ‘redness’, communist or otherwise, when the archaic meaning of #красная
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covered over in 1914 and converted into #sewage canal in 1937 (see #Jõe). The expression 'nomen est omen' is commonly-used in #onomastics, implying a name to be indicative of future events, often with exaggerated doses of #wishful-thinking. But it’s usually the other way round: #apophenia is
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May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
covered over in 1914 and converted into #sewage canal in 1937 (see #Jõe). The expression 'nomen est omen' is commonly-used in #onomastics, implying a name to be indicative of future events, often with exaggerated doses of #wishful-thinking. But it’s usually the other way round: #apophenia is
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Trifolium medium and valge ristik, white clover, T. repens, have the alternative names of #härjapea or valge (white) härjapää. And, indeed, the street is crossed by #Ristiku. 2) More likely, the name of #Tallinn’s main river that used to flow from #Ülemiste lake to the sea at Tallinna bight,
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May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Trifolium medium and valge ristik, white clover, T. repens, have the alternative names of #härjapea or valge (white) härjapää. And, indeed, the street is crossed by #Ristiku. 2) More likely, the name of #Tallinn’s main river that used to flow from #Ülemiste lake to the sea at Tallinna bight,
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#Jõe (Jõgi)
River, the river in question being the #Härjapea which went through the standard slippery slope of many an urban river, with names to-ing and fro-ing between river and canal according to...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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River, the river in question being the #Härjapea which went through the standard slippery slope of many an urban river, with names to-ing and fro-ing between river and canal according to...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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March 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM