Vindi (Vint)

Finch. Also means 2) Endless screw (probably not what you think); and 3) Card game. Breeding in Estonia:

• Koldvint, European serin, Serinus serinus
• Metsvint, chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs
• Põhjavint, brambling, F. montifringilla
• Rohevint, European greenfinch, Carduelis chloris
• Suurnokk-vint aka suurnokk, hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Viu.

Vineeri (Vineer)

Plywood, veneer. Named after the former and now abandoned Tallinna Vineeri ja Mööblikombinaat, Tallinn plywood and furniture plant. See Lutheri. Known as Kivi from 1885-1959.

Viru väljak (Viru)

Known as ‘Flea market’ in the 19^th C (but see Täi), although the 3 variants – Est., Ger., Rus. – all call it louse market: Täiturg, Läusemarkt, Вшивый рынок (Vshivyy rynok), and/or ‘Russian market’ in various guises from 1791 to 1939: Russischer Markt (1791-1907), Vene Turu (1885), Русскій рынокъ (1907-1916) (see note on Russian spelling in intro) and Vene turg (1908-1939) and, oddly, acquiring its present name during the 1^st Soviet Invasion (1939-1940) but under which authority I do not know, then moving on to greater heights with Stalini väljak (1940-1960), punctuated by the Nazis as Wierländischer Platz (1942), which could have been worse: although Estonia was now to be known as Reichskommissariat Ostland, Generalbezirk Estland, they could pretend they chose this name themselves. A compromise was reached in 1960 with the one-name-fits-all Keskväljak (central square), then back at last to Viru väljak in 1970. Current municipal raison d’être: tramway switch-point. This was the original starting-point of the E67, first from Tallinn to Warsaw, now Helsinki to Prague.

• Sadama
• Südalinn
• Vanalinn
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