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Kadaka asum (Kaddak) 
Juniper, name of 3 entities: see also Kadaka tee and Kadaka puiestee. Sub-district (asum) built on an eponymous former manor house known as Kaddak in the 18th C and belonging to Haabersti. The founding-name was almost certainly the common juniper bush, better known as harilik kadakas, Juniperus communis. As any gin drinker, Swiss, Dutch (another gin-producing country, hence the drink’s other name of Hollands...) or otherwise, would know, its berries are used for flavoring: Juniper, in French is genièvre (geneva), another old term for gin. Note, however, that the Swiss city comes from Celtic *genu- (mouth, as in estuary). Settlements date back to late Bronze Age. Kadaka also includes 9 quarters (kvarterid), (about the same as Wards, allasumid): Akadeemia, Kadaka I, II & III; Laki I & II; and Mäepealse I, II & III.
Trivia bonus: savin or savin juniper, Juniperus sabina, is called either sabiina kadakas or kasakakadakas, lit., Cossack juniper, possibly the longest word in Estonian based on only 4 letters where every second one is an ‘a’. Prove me wrong! The longest ‘word’ consisting in individual consonants plus the letter ‘a’ is samavanakalamajasadamarahatagavarapadajamarajakavatavad, a pretty meaningless linguistically-feasible Chomskian gibberish word claimed, generously, to sorta mean: the same-old with the same-old troubles in planning a Kalamaja harbour coffer route. Now you know. See also Käsperti J.
Vana-Lõuna (Vana-Lõuna)
Old South, Southern, Southerly. Runs NE-SW... ‘Old Lunch’, one hopes (see Lõuna), is less likely. Renamed (1959-1991) as Sihveri J. during the Soviet occupation. Street approximately on land once known as Galgen Berg (Gallows Hill), but see Vana-Veerenni.
Lõuna (Lõuna)
South, southern, southerly (also: noon, midday, meridian, for the direction of the sun at its highest position, and lunch. Oddly, while German Mittag means midday or lunchtime, Swedish middag means midday or, strangely, dinner). Also süüd among sailors. Known briefly as Auna from 1940-1941. See also Ida. With typical Tallinn aplomb, street pointing due south-east (except for one 36.44 m stretch which does, admittedly, point south). But see Loode, which may explain everything. Or not.
