Names
Leineri A. (Aleksander Leiner, 1902-1927)
Estonian Communist “murdered by the bourgeois Estonian Security Police” according to Kivi who may well have been under a certain Damocletian influence to present a particular political correctness of thought. Soviet occupation renaming (1940-1991) of Poska J.
Leiva (Leib)
Bread. Named, 2014, for the HQ of Leibur at No.1: Estonian bakery first documented in 1762 when its founder Julius Valentin Jaeksch bought a property on the corner of Vaimu and Lai. See also Pagari. From Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz or *χlaiƀa-z, to Mod. Ger. Laib, Eng. loaf, Gothic hlaifs, as well as Russian хлеб and Polish chleb or even, perhaps, Lat. lībum (flat [unleavened?] bread) and lībāre (perform a sacrifice), hence Eng. libation, indicating the huge socio-cultural importance of bread, but beware, tempting though it is to think Pol. sklep (shop) is a metonym of bread (as in saying ‘motor’ for ‘car’, but the other way round), this comes from sklepienie, vault or cellar, then figuratively stall or trade. As such, this highlights the origins of the boden in Raekoja tänav and Dunkri, for more details, see Kinga.
Lelle (Lelle)
One of the group of streets named for stations on the Tallinn-Türi Kitsarööpa line, after the manor house of Lelle Nicolasßon (unusual triple ‘s’ there: the German ‘Sharfes S’, or sharp S, aka Eszett (lit. S-Z) was a ligature or joining-together of the old ‘long s’ or ſ and the ‘tailed ʒ’, thus ſʒ < ß) first recorded (Mõisa not ß) 1542. A recent addition to the group and yet to be built. See Käru.
