Names
Türnpu K.
(Konstantin Türnpu, 1865-1927)
Born Türnbaum. Renowned conductor of various male choral groups. Capable of playing organ for morning prayer at age eight. A former Old Believer’s Cemetery was located close by, seemingly buried beneath a football pitch.
Tursa (Tursk)
Cod, Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua. Probably from Swedish torsk, which, with an elliptical reference, also means a prostitute’s trick or punter. Part of a fish group. See also Uime.
Turu plats (Turg)
Market. See main article Turu tänav. Oddly, not a square (in Nõmme) but a street nest to its market. Known as plain-old Turg in the 30s, then Turuplats until 1966.
Turu põik (Turg)
Market. See main article Turu tänav. Soviet occupation renaming (1954-1991) of Keldrimäe.
Turu tänav (Turg)
Market. After Keskturg, Tallinn’s central market, some 150 m to the east. Name used in three configurations: 1) tänav, whose residents were initially located by liival, kitsas tänavas, or ‘in a narrow street on the sand’, indicating the extent of Tallinn sands, here about 2 km from the shore, then by Salzmann-Dörptsche Straße (Saltzmann-Tartu road, 1825, after a local councillor), moving later to various herring-based names: Heringstraße (1865); Heeringi (1885); Heeringa (1908-1948) and even, at one stage, Подселедочная (Podseledochnaya, under the [sign of the] herring) which Kivi suggests was a herring store cum tavern. Turu is a loan word, ultimately from Old East Slavic *tъrgъ (tǔrgǔ) apparently via Russian (but hard to trace) to old Swedish, torgh>torg, and thence to Finnish tori and the Finnish town of Turku, the genitive of which is Turun (see Kauba). Anagram of Rutu. See also Turu põik and Turu plats.
Turvise (Turvis)
Armor, corselet, breastplate, harness and, for the modern-day horseless road warrior, retreaded winter tire. Close to Maleva and Uus-Maleva, and hence member of a mini military mêlée. See Amburi.
