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Õuna (Õun)
Apple. Street in Nõmme. There used to be an Õuna between Imanta and Lembitu, known as Кашутинская ул or Kasutini after local property owner until 1922, and as õhk:õhu (air, atmosphere) in 1940-41. There is a touch of mixed-blood foreign ancestry to both õun and its southern cousin, ubin. The former possibly Indo-Iranian and the latter possibly proto-Baltic, perhaps a conflation with uba (see Oa). When the noble spud arrived in Estonia in the mid-18th C, northerners called it maaõun and southerners maaubin, both calqued on German Erdäpfel (see Maasika and Kaarla).
Kaasiku (Kaasik): 
1) Birch wood, forest or grove; 2) Singer of old folk songs at weddings (archaic). This one is odd. Said to be a former village and now Ward (allasum) of Mähe, it seems to belong to Merivälja, while the only street of this name is about as far away as it could possibly be, in Pääsküla. Adding insult to injury Kaasiku used to be known not just as Junnküla (pooh village), but Junnküla küla (pooh village village). See Teeääre.
