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Soosambla (Soosammal)
Angled paludella moss or tufted fen-moss, Paludella squarrosa. See also Soovildiku. Actually a couple of microns on the wrong side of the track, in Laagri, not Tallinn but, hell, I like moss.
Sõõru (Sõõrd)
Synonym, or near as dammit, of ale (see Alemaa), assart (i.e. land cleared and burned for cultivation) or, in some dialects, a small fenced meadow, often a clearing, prior to assarting. Part of a land-clearing group of streets, which pretty clearly excludes its other meaning of flow of milk from a teat. See also Tulimulla.
Soone (Soon)
Little spring or stream, after the (now essentially covered, see Trummi) winding brooklet it crosses, Lisaku soon (Lisaku spring, source about 1 km WSW away). Lisaku itself could have originated as the Ger. name Isaak. The same word also means: 1) a groove or a slot; 2) a lode or a vein; 3) a vessel, vein, artery or duct; 4) a gutter or channel; and 5) for those with an inordinate interest in insects: trachea (for humans, it tends to be hingetoru (lit. soul- or, more reasonably, breath-tube) or trahhea. I'll stop and won't mention the thingies inside fiber-optic cables that ferry the pulse of modern existence.
Trummi (Trumm)
Drum, but not the sort you play on: one of the large drainage pipes or flues used as culverts, named in 1922 after the local kuivenduskraavi trummi (drainage ditch drum or pipe) aka truup:truubi (culvert) burying the spring called Lisaku soon (see Soone) running along the central 20% of the street. Why Trummi was chosen instead of Truubi is unclear. Once also known (dates unsure) as Brückenstraße (bridge st) or Мостовая ул. (pavement / bridge st) shedding further light: while мостовая (mostovaya) originally meant ‘street paved with round logs’, and derives from ‘bridge’, it seems to indicate the engineering consequence of covering a watercourse to make it easily passable. But see Truubi. Parent street-name of a now hydrology-themed sector.
