#TaluNimi
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Ütlen naabrinaisele tema protestist hoolimata Kruusa-Eeva kuigi ta nimi ei ole Kruusa, on talunimi. Meilmaal peab nii olema.
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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#Käänu (Kään)
Turn, bend, crook. Former farm name.
#TaluNimi
#Tallinn #Streetnames
#Onomastics
January 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#Lillevälja (Lilleväli)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Haabersti
Field of flowers. Former farm name. See #Välja.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim
#Flower #Lille
#FarmName #TaluNimi
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Kuusiku (Kuusik)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
#Spruce #wood, spruce grove. Former farm name.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Forest #Mets
#Tree #Puu
#FarmName #TaluNimi
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Tean üht, kes ise kasvas talus, kus inimesi kutsutigi Talunimi Eesnimi, aga hiljem linnastus ja kui oli abikaasa peale parajasti pahane, muutus too Perenimi Eesnimeks, aga muul ajal oli lihtsalt Eesnimi.

Ehk on ka individualiseerumise tulem, et inimene pole enam SelleKlanni Esindaja, vaid.. ta ise?
February 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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#Sepapere (Sepapere)
Former #farm name: (black)smith’s family, household, farm.
#RahvaKultuuriNimelised #TaluNimi
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January 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Kaarlepere (Kaarlepere)
Karl (Charles) family, household, farm. Former farm with the name of Kaarli.
#TaluNimi
#IsikunimedeTänavad
January 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#Karjatse (Karjats?): Old or dialectal form of karjane, herder or shepherd, probably a former #FarmName.

#Tallinn #Odonymy #TaluNimi
December 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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#Räga (Räga)
Brush heap, tangle caused by fallen trees in a forest. Former farm name.
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January 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Künkamaa (Künkamaa): Hilly country. Now we’re getting real (see #Mäe). Named after a farm called #Künka.
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#TallinnaKõrgusteMaania #Mägitänavad
January 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#Theo, via #Tehu, from an abbreviation of #Stefanus, and #Marte, prob. from #Martinus. #SovietOccupation renaming (1979-1995) of #Vilisuu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Municipality #Omavalitsus
#World_War_II #II_MaailmaSõda
#FarmName #TaluNimi
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#Tooma (Toomas)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Väo
Named after the lake and/or historical farm, #Tooma, it runs by. Probably derived from the name, Toomas (Thomas).

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmName #TaluNimi
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Rajapere (Rajapere)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Name of former family, household, farm, probably one located on the edge/border of a village, manor house, etc. See #Raja for details.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmName #TaluNimi
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#Põlde (Põllu [pl.])
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Former #FarmName. #Põlde is the #PartitivePlural (which I don’t really grasp, but see #Intro) of #põld, so ‘Some of the fields’? See #Põllu. But põld was sometimes used as a #metonym for ‘croft’ or other small-scale peasant farmholding.

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November 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Selja (Selg)
Ridge, also back. Former farm name. To get dressed is panema riided selga or, lit. ‘to put clothes on (the) back’. More specifically, however, you put clothes on the particular parts of the body involved: for example panema püksid/kingad jalga is...
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#Onomastics

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January 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Settlements recorded as far back as the #BronzeAge.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Municipality #Omavalitsus
#FarmName #TaluNimi
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December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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their mum’s saucepan for armor, and which early #Norse warrior would not nick his missus’ #casserole to protect his shoulder-rock, as Norse #kennings so poetically describe a head (deadpan humor?). I rest my case.

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#PersonalName #Isikunimi
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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turnoff from the main #PaldiskiMaantee opposite No.163 and lead to #Keskküla.

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#FarmName #TaluNimi
#Unexplained #Seletamatu
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December 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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that it comes from the name #Zacharias…

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#FarmName #TaluNimi
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#Kuusenõmme (Kuusenõmme)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
#Spruce #marsh or #moor. Former farm name.

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#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmName #TaluNimi
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#Keskküla (Keskküla)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva
Mid-village, middle of the village, village centre... Also name of (now) ruined manor house in #Läänemaa county. Former farm name.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FarmName #TaluNimi
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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way of saying ‘#Russian’). Former farm / family name. Farm group. See also #Toomapere.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Family #Perekond
#FarmName #TaluNimi
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October 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#Kurmu (Kurm)
Corner, nook, secluded or out-of-the-way place. Not out of the way at all, so maybe an old farm name.
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#AjalooliseNimegaTänavad
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM