Maneeži (Maneež)
Manège, riding-ground. Named after the Tallinna Ratsasõidu Maneež (Tallinn indoor riding centre) which opened nearby in 1879. Ignoring the ungodly earlier names of Kleine Narvsche Straße (1877, etc.) and Afonasjew-Straße (19th C), the ‘ž’ has been the cause of bitter orthographical grief, viz.: Maneesi (1885, etc.), Maneshi (1908), Maneschi (1910)...
Lennuki (Lennuk)
1) Originally, the name of Kalevipoeg’s ship; 2) Airplane, aircraft. Name also given to one of two Russian destroyers (this one, ‘Avtroil’, built, ironically, by Tallinn shipbuilders Bocker and Lange with help from France) hijacked by the British and offered to Estonia in 1919, then flogged to Peruvian Navy in 1933, and scrapped in 1954. See Vambola. Also Soviet occupation renaming (1936-1991) of Mardi.
