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Järvevana (Järvevana)
Old man of the lake, Old Man Lake, another nickname for Ülemiste Vanake (the little old man of Ülemiste), a mythological character who lives there. See also Hallivanamehe. This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague.
Järve (Järv) 
Lake. The one in question being Ülemiste. Relationships unclear. Most FU languages have very similar cognates for lake: Finnish järvi, Livonian jōra, Sami jávri, etc., but järv could well be an early loan from Proto-Baltic *jaur-, a root involving liquids such as Lithuanian jauris (swamp) and jūra (sea), cognates with Albanian hurdë (pond), and Armenian ջուր (ǰur, water), and even English urine, itself cognate with Latin urinare (to dive). Aren’t we lucky!
Jalaka (Jalakas)
Elm. Harilik jalakas, wych elm or scots elm, Ulmus glabra. Estonian etymology obscure, said to have Baltic-Finnish roots. While it’s uncertain that its Lith. and Latv. counterparts kalninė guoba (mountain elm) and parastā goba (common elm) share an unexplained guoba/goba root with Finn. vuorijalava (mountain elm) or even Polish wiąz górski (wych elm), the wych/wiąz duo, along with Est./Finn. jalakas/jalava converge on a different interpretation: wiąz means to tie or bind, to connect objects with rope, etc. (Polish peasantry seems to have used strips of elm bark for bundling), and wych derives from PIE *weig, ‘to bend or wind’, which also gives us ‘withy’ which, as all preppers and survivalists know, is another useful makeshift ‘cord’. Jalg:Jala, I hope, is clear by now. Est. pastlad are primitive shoes made from scraps of leather wrapped up around the feet and held in place by cord or laces, and other footwear such as viisud may be made from woven willow, linden, birch or even juniper bark but not, apparently, elm.
Jalgpalli (Jalgpall)
Despite a gentleman’s natural repugnance for the activity, one must include it: football. Historically (1958-1992), more of a footpath connecting Mäekalda and Vesivärava and running past the old ‘Dünamo’, now Kadrioru, stadium. No relation to the one once at Filmi. In 2019, the streetname was re-used to replace the western half of Kauba, and runs (or dribbles) alongside the Le Coq A. stadium and other pitches.
