• Farm
• Unexplained

Viige (?)

Old farm name. As to actual meaning?... Viiga and Viigi are recorded as forenames in the Tartu region. Plenty for viik:viigi: fig (not that common in the Tropics of Vismeistri), draw or tie, tapeworm, and crease. One dialectal meaning of viik:viigi is bay or cove, which makes vague sense, the street is roughly between Kakumäe and Kopli bays, about 2 & 1 km respectively, but still i not e. Wiedemann has wigl/wiglas:wigla for pitchfork (with more than 2 prongs); and wigle:wigle for godwit or snipe; so lots of straw-clutching but little concrete which is hardly the best choice when you’re sinking anyway… Last shot: I’ll suggest an unrecorded genitive of an old(?) Estonian man’s name Viik(us), which could legitimately genitivize as Viige (see Luige and Kiige).

• HAABERSTI
• HISTORICAL
• Vismeistri
• Mõis
• Asum (Sub-district)

Vismeistri (Vismeister)

From Fischmeister or ‘fishmaster’. Former village named after Toompea’s – what in today’s post-GoT world would be called – ‘Master of Fish’ in charge of fishing and fish supplies. Earliest record dating to 1515 as Vismestere. Name later adopted by a summer manor (see Mõisa) in Haabersti (for the locality’s history of name change, see Fišmeistri). In nearby Maardu there is a street called Teemeistri, inspector of roads, although some very dodgy pan-Gaian linguistico-bimbonerds claim this should be ‘tea-master’ (tee is both road and tea) due to a putative common parentage of Estonian and Japanese. One may legitimately suspect wishful thinking...

• HAABERSTI
• Vismeistri
• Mõis

Trahteri (Trahter)

Trahteri (Trahter)

Lit. Tavern, inn, public house. Saagpakk suspects it comes from the Russian or German. EES suggests Esto-Swedish trafter, guesthouse which – given Sweden’s importing of French vocabulary following Napoleon’s installation of Bernadotte as childless King Charles XIV John’s son and heir – probably derived from French traiteur, originally a person providing food for money, purveyor of food, thence restauranteur, now more or less a delicatessen and/or caterer, cf. Italian trattoria. Hence 3 main possibilities: 1) A farm or poolmõis (see Mõisa) just named Trahter (there was an Adami Trahteri tee / Aadamatrahteri koht [stead, seat] a few km east, possibly related); 2) A farm or poolmõis acting as inn. Since there were 2 streets/locations of the same name within 20 m of each other, this one, ‘new’ i.e. Uuetrahtri, also listed as “(Ges.)” or Gesinde (dependency, see Õismäe); and ‘old’, Vanatrahtli, also listed as Kordon, or border post, presumably one set up between Tallinn and Harku under the first Soviet Occupation of 1940-1941; and 3) a combination of both, probably the more likely solution.