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Vabaõhumuuseumi (Vabaõhumuuseum)
Open-air museum / Outdoor museum. Longest single-word streetname ex aequo with Märtsikellukese, 15 letters.
Tagala (Tagala)
‘The rear’, lit. place behind. Military term for the territory, along with the materials, supplies and services of a warring state, outside the combat area. Named for proximity to Peter the Great’s underground munitions stores at Moonalao.
Veerme (Veere)
Name of the former farm on which the street is built. Name could well be a corruption of a ‑vere type name (see Aedvere). Chosen for reasons of local oikonym priority, See also Mäeküla. Also means slide, usually qualified by type as lumeveere, avalanche, or maaveere, landslide. The word laviin is perhaps better known and/or clearer.
Rehe (Rehi)
Drying-barn or large room in old farmhouse where grain is kiln-dried and threshed. The ambient damp and the methods used to keep it dry is said to have given Estonian Hansa-period bread its distinctive and much-appreciated flavor. Name of former farm. See Tare.
