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Juurdeveo (Juurdevedu)
Conveyance, transport, supply. Street leads to the Tallinn-Väike station. Many of Estonia’s domestic railway lines, e.g. Tallinn to Viljandi and Pärnu, etc., used to be narrow-gauge. The idea here was that lines from Tallinn-Väike conveyed passengers or goods to the standard-gauge railway from Tallinn to St. Petersburg.
Karamelli (Karamell)
Caramel, after nearby sweeties factory. Named for the former Kalev chocolate factory nearby. Building in progress.
Käru (Käru)
Named after the station on the Tallinn-Türi narrow-gauge railway line group (see also Lelle). Also means barrow or pushcart.
Kauba (Kaup)
Goods, wares, merchandise. Germanic loanword, German Kauf or Swedish köp. Same proto-Germanic root *kaupa- gives Finnish kaupunki, city, Denmark’s København or Copenhagen (see Hobusepea), trading-port dating back to at least 11th C, earliest recorded name: Køpmannæhafn Traders’/Merchants’ harbor (see Silgu). Previously Frachtstraße, Waarenstraße, Товарная ул, respectively freight, wares, commodities.
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