Names
Tuukri (Tuuker)
Diver, of the bronze helmet and concrete knickers variety. First known as Neu-Holland Straße in 1856, then Hollandi from 1850-odd to 1950. During construction of new housing developments in Kadriorg, a ship was dug up about 200 m from the current shore, now named Viljo after the building-site manager, and dates back to later than 1487. See Liiva for information on Estonia’s and Tallinn’s slow rise from the sea. See also Pikksilma, where a similar find was made next to this.
Tuule (Tuul)
Wind. Tallinn possessed, we regret to report, two Tuules from 1924 to 1959, one tee, one tänav. The latter was later converted to Elektri.
Tuulemaa (Tuulemaa)
Land of wind. Also collection of poetry written by Gustav Suits (1883-1956) in 1913 where he portrays Estonia, literally and metaphorically, as a ‘land of wind’. Renamed under The Soviet occupation, along with a street that doesn’t exactly join it, Vihuri (1953-1995), as Belinski V.
Tuulemurru (Tuulemurd)
Windfall, wind breakage (in a wood). Although the former kaart.tallinn.ee included a half an inch of this in Tallinn, it’s actually in Laagri.
Tuulenurga (Tuulenurk)
‘Windy corner’, athough the nurk:nurga ending could also refer to a paddock. Estification of the earlier ‘Windeck’ summer house, streetname replacing the western strip of Kose in (what seems to be called, perhaps informally) Windecki park, former poolmõis (see Mõisa) once known as Weissi. Should I dig deeper? No.
