Names
Vanemuise (Vanemuine)
God of music composed by Faehlmanni F.R. and Weizenberg A. in their Estonian mythology, name borrowed from Finnish Väinämöinen of folklore and Kalevala fame, giving its name to a theatre in Tartu. The name may well come from Finnish väinämö, minstrel, but see Väina (my original interpretation that it came from ‘old’, vanha in Finnish and vana in Estonian (or vanem, elder, see Kuninga), is almost certainly wrong, and some people wouldn’t say ‘almost’). Part of a small Estonian mythology street-name group. See Haldja.
Väo (Väo) 
After one-time village east of Tallinn, first recorded in LCD as Uvætho (1241), followed by Vethe (1298), Vewenkülle (1389), Feht (1674), Feht Hoff (1689), Wehokylla (?), Waeo (1871) and Faeht (1913). Also a road called Väo tee once known as Fähtscher Weg. Settlements recorded as far back as the Bronze Age. Located near the Pirita river rapids, its name is suggested to come from an earlier root of vedama, to draw, tug, convey, etc., *Vädu or *Vedu, loaned from PIE *wed-, about which see both Vee and, more particularly, Lükati. The name was later given to a linnamõis (see Mõisa) a kilometer or so NNW, owned at one stage by one of the Jobst Duntes, so also known as Tondi Mõis (see Tondi and Tondiraba). Another Väo Mõis was located some 100-odd km SE of Tallinn.
Väomurru (Väomurd)
Metonym (usually kivimurd: murd = break/fraction) for the almost 500-ha Väo lubjakivimaardla ([Ordovician] limestone deposit) quarry in Väo.
Vaprate (Vaprad [pl.])
Brave/Gallant/Valiant lads/men, etc. After the 3 Communists and one farmer upon whose land a shoot-out with the police occurred on the night of 1924-12-4/5, shortly after the failed coup d’état (see Vakmanni R.). Street and memory subsumed under present-day Vabaõhukooli.
Värava (Värav)
Gate, gateway. Odd, name stated as random, but between two fungi Riisika and Puraviku on its E half, and next to Kaitse on its W half, random I think not. Given the nearby Liiva station was a junction for Peter the Great’s Naval Fortress Railway, and the street ending some 150 m from Vabaduse puiestee (qv.), I suspect a one-time checkpoint of some sort. Could be wrong.
