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Via Baltica (Via Baltica)
Lit. the Baltic Way, or E67, a 1505-km highway originally running from Tallinn to Warsaw, now from Prague to Helsinki, not to be confused with the Baltic Way / Chain (‘way’ in Lithuanian [kelias] and Latvian [ceļš], ‘chain’ in Estonian [kett]), the demonstration of 1989-08-23 when some 2 million people from the above 3 countries formed a 690-km human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, leading to their independence. August 23rd is now Black Ribbon Day, or European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Volmre (?)
Former farm name of obscure origin. A Volbri / Volmri once existed there, named after or name of a farm dependency called Wolmri (1913) which looks like a possible abbreviation of Woldemar, but unsure. New road servicing the new Vikimõisa development.
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.
Vae (Vaag)
Weighing-scales. Note: not content to have the most staggering number of declension/conjugation types (69, 170-odd or 594 according to source), or possibly because of having them, many Estonian words can be declined in various ways. This word can be either vaag:vae or vaag:vaagi. If asked to choose, just, er, say no. Street actually outside Tallinn, in Laagri.
