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Veski (Veski)
Mill: See on vesi tema veskile: that’s grist (in this case water) to his mill. This is a contraction of earlier vesikivi, from vesi + kivi (see Vee + Kivi). If prefixed by käsi (hand), it becomes ‘quern’, and given language’s tendency to shorten common words, this was probably the original meaning.
Vana-Liivamäe (Vana-Liivamägi)
Old Sand Mountain (see Liivamäe). Trouble here: given the Reynold’s number (angle of repose) of sand, it should be called the ‘Old Sand Dune’ and, indeed, from 2003 to 2008, an attack of municipal modesty caused the thoroughfare’s qualifier to be changed from ‘old’ to the more realistic ‘little’ but an Estonian will relinquish a mountain only under the greatest duress and so, on 2008-10-22, they switched back to Vana. See Mäe for discussion.
Vana-Keldrimäe (Vana-Keldrimägi)
Old Cellar hill, see Keldrimäe. Previously Drewingi, Drevingi, Grevingi, after local gentleman with a name hard for Estonians to pronounce, Historically, native words do not start with ‘D’, or even ‘G’, so the above may perhaps represent an awareness of foreign-ness and corresponding attempt to reproduce it and make it sound foreign, as in, e.g., French Le Jean’s Shop where the apostrophe is incorrect but looks English. See Mäe for discussion.
Torupilli (Torupill) 
Bagpipes. Apparently named after the <18th-C tavern called Torupilli Körts, itself after a former pasture of alternative name Sikupilli, far nicer than Städtischer Schlachthof, municipal slaughterhouse. Better known nowadays for its shopping-mall. Only street in Tallinn that’s an ots. Sub-district named in 1900-20s; street in 1991.
