Names
Vanalinn (0) 
Old Town. Oldest part of the Kesklinn and Sub-district (Asum), divided according to source into 4 Wards (Allasum, pl. Allasumid): All-linn and Toompea, along with the rather nebulous Tallinna linnamüür (Tallinn City Wall) and Tallinna muldkindlustusvöönd (earthwork entrenchment zone). The result of which is an awkward situation where a number of streets (from Aia to Uus) belong to none of the Wards. While they may well be listed under ‘Vanalinn’, the asymmetric Ward organization irritates the neurodivergent who walk among us. I have therefore decided to create a new Ward which I shall call ‘Kolmas Linn’ and will include all Vanalinn streets, squares, belvederes, etc., that are neither Toompea nor All-linn. Tallinn Linnavalitsus, please take note. See Uuslinn.
Vanaturu kael (0)
Neck of the old market. Only thoroughfare in Tallinn designated by kael. As to whether this was an original designation, I am skeptical, despite a similar use elsewhere (Lemmiku kael on Aegna, see Tulekivi). Other examples such as Võrkla from Wærkæla; Nahkjala > Nakæl; Sinikahja > Sinikaela; etc., suggest a possible genitive suffixed by a ‑la ending (see Hiiela and Ruunaoja). Known as Markthalsgasse, Marktstraße, Marktgasse, etc., in the 19th C, the first of which suggests it as a covered part of a market (could the hal turn into kael?).
Vanemuise (Vanemuine)
God of music composed by Faehlmanni F.R. and Weizenberg A. in their Estonian mythology, name borrowed from Finnish Väinämöinen of folklore and Kalevala fame, giving its name to a theatre in Tartu. The name may well come from Finnish väinämö, minstrel, but see Väina (my original interpretation that it came from ‘old’, vanha in Finnish and vana in Estonian (or vanem, elder, see Kuninga), is almost certainly wrong, and some people wouldn’t say ‘almost’). Part of a small Estonian mythology street-name group. See Haldja.
Väo (Väo)
After one-time village east of Tallinn, first recorded in LCD as Uvætho (1241), followed by Vethe (1298), Vewenkülle (1389), Feht (1674), Feht Hoff (1689), Wehokylla (?), Waeo (1871) and Faeht (1913). Also a road called Väo tee once known as Fähtscher Weg. Settlements recorded as far back as the Bronze Age. Located near the Pirita river rapids, its name is suggested to come from an earlier root of vedama, to draw, tug, convey, etc., *Vädu or *Vedu, loaned from PIE *wed-, about which see both Vee and, more particularly, Lükati. The name was later given to a linnamõis (see Mõisa) a kilometer or so NNW, owned at one stage by one of the Jobst Duntes, so also known as Tondi Mõis (see Tondi and Tondiraba). Another Väo Mõis was located some 100-odd km SE of Tallinn.
Väomurru (Väomurd)
Metonym (usually kivimurd: murd = break/fraction) for the almost 500-ha Väo lubjakivimaardla ([Ordovician] limestone deposit) quarry in Väo.
