Names
Tirdi (Tirt)
Grasshopper. This could also be the common-or-garden cicada, which sings so sweetly in the suburbs but could equally be any leafhopper, treehopper or spittlebug. Insect, plant and bird names can be extremely variable and fuzzy. Trust me on this.
Tiskre (Tiskre) 
After the river, village and one-time manor house. Sub-district and residential area some 12 km west of Tallinn center. Parts of the street renamed (1995) as Jõeoti and Räime. Name first mentioned in 1522 as Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach/shore) and in 1531 as Diskerkkulle (Tiskre village), from the MLG name Discher, probably related to modern German Tischler, carpenter or furniture maker. This is where the facts stop and go for a beer. For some, up until the 16th C (and the dates do match quite well), the river was recorded as Lafddienpäh or Laddenpähe, likely due to historian error (see Lahepea), and ignoring the other suggestion of a one-time name of Kivioja will spare me another session of self-inflicted retinal detachment. Since you’re desperate to know, the river Tiskre runs 4.6 km from Harku lake to Kakumäe bay, also acting as city border in Tallinn’s early history.
Tiskrevälja (Tiskreväli)
Land outside / around the former Tiskre village; ‘Tiskre village fields’? Earlier iterations of the name include Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach, 1522), Diskerkulle (Tiskre village, 1531) and Tischer (manor, 1798, see Mõisa). DEPn implies an MLG Discher origin for Tischer, equivalent to mod. Ger. Tischler, carpenter or furniture-maker and, as any Smith, Wright or Fletcher would know, trades often end up as personal names. See Välja.
Tisleri A.
(Alice Tisler, 1893-1918)
Who once lived in this street. Daughter of a farm laborer, tulihingeline kommunist (ardent, lit. ‘fire-bespirited’, communist), member of the Tallinn Red Guard, killed in the Battle of Keila, 1918-02-23. Soviet occupation renaming (1949-1990) of Magasini.
Tobiase R.
(Rudolf Tobias, 1873-1918)
First professional Estonian composer, whose Julius Caesar was also the country’s first symphonic work. Face on the front of the 50-krooni banknote with the Estonian Opera House on the back (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Previously Slobodka (1908), Slabodka (1910), Slobotka (1921) and Slobodi (-1923) with the latter’s starting date unspecified, after the 19th-C expansion of Peter I’s Russian quarter, or ‘Слобода’ (sloboda), around today’s Roheline aas and Poska for servants and other employees at Kadriorg Palace (see Vana Slobodaa).
