sticklebabies cynically abandoned by an uncaring mother. See #Maimu.
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#Särje (Särg)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe #Pääsküla
Roach (fish), Rutilus rutilus. But see #Säina.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Vana-Kalamaja.
View along Vana-Kalamaja, Tallinn, Near Kalju põik.
Mural in Vana-Kalamaja, Tallinn, of a smiling (and perhaps fishy) lady holding a 'Tangled'-like flower illuminating her palms while a bemused moose looks on, wondering if lichen is involved.
Front façade of the age-old and iconic Kalma Sauna in Vana-Kalamaja, Tallinn.
#Vana-Kalamaja (Vana-Kalamaja)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Old Kalamaja. A bit like #Uus-Kalamaja but older. In fact, both created in 1885.
#Fish #Kalad
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Food #Toit
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kalaranna.
View along Kalaranna, Tallinn, close to the Kalaturg in the city center direction.
Former Patarei (Battery) Prison, built as a fort in the 1830s, currently in conversion into a museum on the coastal side of Kalaranna, Tallinn.
The inevitable row of garages in Kalaranna, so typical of the Tallinn landscape.
#Kalaranna (Kalarand)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Fish beach, fishing-shore. With a fine view of the sea, until they built a #prison (no longer used, in conversion to museum) in front of it. Long a home to Kalamaja fishermen.
#Fish #Kalad
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Maritime #Merendus
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Angerja.
View between two rows of apartment blocks in Angerja, Tallinn.
A small and solitary rockery in Angerja, Tallinn.
Apartment block in Angerja, Tallinn.
#Angerja (Angerjas)
Eel, Anguilla anguilla. Probably named after those found in the nearby former marshland of #KalamäeSoo (fish-hill marsh, see #Erika).
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kaluri.
View along the SE end of Kaluri, Tallinn, in the SE direction.
Old house in (dare I say? could well be wrong) datcha-esque style in Kaluri, Tallinn.
Barbecue by the beach, sorta, in Kaluri, Tallinn.
Kaluri (Kalur)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Fisherman. Named after nearby fishermen’s #kolkhoz.
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#Silmu (Silm)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Lamprey. Two sorts: #jõesilm, European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis, and #ojasilm, European brook lamprey, L. planeri.
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Tindi (Tint)
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Aka #meritint or #norss, the European spelt, Osmerus eperlanus, or its better-known cousin the Peipsi tint, O. e. morpha spirinchus, which can probably be called the Peipsi spelt..
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spends most of its life the sea and returns to the river to spawn, the latter is essentially freshwater); or vikerforell: the #steelhead, #rainbow or €ocean trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, renamed from Richardson’s S. gairdneri.
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#Silgu (Silk)
Baltic herring, small and/or salted or otherwise – olla nagu silgud pütis: to be packed like sardines. Could be considered synonymous with the actual fish, #Räime, but, as reflected in its #Swedish etymon, #sill, is often...
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe #Vismeistri
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Nigli (Nigli)
Lesser or small sand eel, Ammodytes tobianus, better known as väike tobias, little Toby (see #Viki). Part of a fish group. See also #Räime.
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– on the #Kakumäe peninsula, site of former fish processing and refrigeration plants – is part of a fish group, see #Havi, interspersed among a fishing-tackle group, see #Abara;
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#Angerja (Angerjas)
Eel, Anguilla anguilla. Probably named after those found in the nearby former marshland of #Kalamäe soo (fish-hill marsh, see #Erika).
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Karjamaa
#Fish #Kalad
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#Säina (Säinas)
#Ide (from Swedish id < idh, gleaming, shimmering, etc.) or orfe from German orvo from Latin orphus, sea fish, from Greek ὀρφώς, odd, with it being freshwater), Leuciscus idus. Fish of the Year in Austria 2004. Alongside its own Orfe,
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#Kalaranna (Kalarand)
Fish beach, fishing-shore. With a fine view of the sea, until they built a prison (no longer used) in front of it. Long a home to Kalamaja fishermen.
#Tallinn #Põhja-Tallinn #Kalamaja
#Fish #Kalad
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#Kalasadama (Kalasadam)
Fish harbor, fish port. Streetname with the longest sequence of 2-letter syllables.
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#Odonymy #Odonüümia
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#Maimu (Maim)
Immature fish, whitebait, smelt, fry, or even baby anything. Part of a fish group. See also #Merihärja.
#Fish #Kalad
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#Ründi (Rünt)
Gudgeon, groundling, Gobio gobio gobio. Part of a fish group. See also #Siia.
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#Vismeistri (Vismeister)
From Fischmeister or ‘fishmaster’. Former village named after #Toompea’s – what in today’s post-GoT world would be called – ‘Master of Fish’ in charge of fishing and fish supplies.
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#Fišmeistri (Fišmeister)
Listed as an example of some of the spellings that #Tallinn #streetnames can undergo: Vismestere (1515), Fischmeistri, Fišmeistri, Vissmeistri, wiskmeister (1732), Fischmeister, Vischmeyster, Висмейстри & Фишмейстре / Фишмейстеръ (Vismeystri / Fishmeystre).
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#Lesta (Lest): Flounder, Platichthys flesus. Anagram of #Laste. Part of a fish group. See also #Lõhe.
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#Uime (Uim)
Fin. Not the sort across the bay, but the bits that stick out of fishes. Part of a fish group, clearly running out of names, see also #Viidika.
#Fish #Kalad
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