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Treiali (Treial)
Lathe-operator, turner. One of a mini trade-name area, see also Kaevuri. To say this street is odd is an understatement, even by Tallinn standards… It starts happily enough close to the Russo-Baltic Shipyard, nicely cobbled and cuddly around the pretty little Nicolas church and keeping the sea at bay, then splits off eastwards to cross the track towards the seaward ‘lines’ (3. liin to 5. liin), but doesn’t get there! Gone! 10 m down the hill you reach Liinevahe. And yet 250 m away, at ///movie.sweated.wagers there’s another stretch of street, maybe 50 m long, also named Treiali, with neither road, footpath nor motorway in between.
Tondiraba (Tondiraba) 
‘Ghost’s’ mire/fen/marsh. See Tondi. This part of Tallinn was clearly associated with a member of the Dunte family, since there used to be a Tondi kõrts (inn), aka Tunte Korts or Dunten-Krug (1732) on (now) Narva mnt (///count.youth.planting), roughly equidistant between Katleri Mõis (///clinked.rare.valve), aka Tondi Mõis after the nearby inn, so the manor itself had nothing to do with the Dunte family, although the area had been associated with ‘Tondi’ since the early 1600s, but still unclear as to which one) and Väo Mõis (///types.safari.grass), a linnumõis (see Mõisa) first recorded as Das Gut Faeht (the Faeht property) in 1725, aka Фетъ (Fet), Wäo or Tondi m, all of which spanning a distance of about 2.5 km. While it seems unlikely that Tondi kõrts was related to Katleri Mõis, the westernmost property (which also is said to have run a peat-extraction business, hence the ‑raba ending), Väo Mõis is understood to have been leased to a Jobst Dunte in the 17th C. But which one? As above, see Tondi.
Taevakivi (Taevakivi)
Meteorite, lit. celestial or sky stone. After local site of meteorite impact some 20-25K years ago, as is nearby Tähesaju. The Tondiraba meteoriidijälg (meteorite footprint) is ±200 m WNW from the northern end of the street, at ///overlook.jabs.edges. Also title of story by Jaan Kross involving, guess, a meteorite. See also Kivi.
Suurekivi (Suurekivi)
Large stone. Former farm name after the eponymous erratic boulder (see Rändrahnu) at ///thank.crabby.pioneers. For other erratic-themed locations, see Tulekivi.
