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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 or drainage ditch ‘drum’ aka truup:truubi, culvert. 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 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.

Truubi (Truup)

Pipe, flue, drain, covered trench, culvert and ‘little bridge’. In line with Trummi to which it is perpendicular, the meaning hovers between the latter three acceptions. Named to match other streets in a hydrology-themed sector. See also, but rather oddly, Alliksoo.

Tungla (Tungal)

1) Firebrand (cf. Icelandic and Old Norse tungl, moon); 2) Smut, blight, rust (plant mold or fungus). But neither one nor the other. Originally Sõpruse (1952-58), street renamed some 30 years after the Taara and Vanemuise group surrounding it, and a search in Kalevipoeg reveals it to be a mythical kingdom whose son and heir comes to press his suit on Linda but, like his four predecessors, gets taken to the cleaners. Also a well-known song by Kuhlbarsi F. and Hermanni K.A., Kungla rahvas (people of Kungla). Derived from Swedish kungliga (royal, kingly) and thought to be calqued on Gotland.

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