Names
Teelise (Teeline)
Wayfarer, traveler, wanderer. Street parallel to the Tallinn-Paldiski railway line.
Teemeistri (Teemeister)
Highways supervisor. Streetname replacing some of the wilder excrescences of Pärnu.
Teenri (Teener)
Servant. A narrow street no longer in existence (KNAB gives up to 1954, but does not appear on the Tallinn map Tallinna Linna Plaan 1922) between Kinga and Mündi, off Raekoja plats. Said to be named because location of various city notables’ business residences, but given its earlier names – Teendri (1885) and Dienerstraße (both: ‘servant’) and Russian Лакейская (Lakiejskaja, from Fr. laquais (footman or lackey), whence the English) – perhaps after the notables’ employees instead. Located somewhere behind Tallinn’s one-time Vaekoda (weigh-house, built 1554-54, burnt down 1945) and fire-station (±1780 – yeah).
Tehnika (Tehnika)
Technical science, technology, engineering; technique, equipment. Named after nearby Raudtee Tehnikakool, railway technical college.
Tehumardi (Tehumardi)
Village in southern Saaremaa where a brutal battle between Russians and Germans was the beginning of the end of German presence on the island. Monument erected in 1967. Village first recorded in 1645 as Theomarte after a farm based on two names: Theo, via Tehu, from an abbreviation of Stefanus, and Marte, prob. from Martinus. Soviet occupation renaming (1979-1995) of Vilisuu.
Teisepere (Teisepere)
Neighbours / Next-door neighbours, lit. second or other family. May also be spelled teise pere or teispere aka teistre (although most people say naaber these days: Idanaaber, for example, ‘Eastern neighbor’, is another way of saying ‘Russian’). Former farm / family name. Farm group. See also Toomapere.
