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Harksaba (Harksaba)

Kite (the bird). Lit. forktail. Two species breeding in Estonia: must-harksaba, black kite, Milvus migrans, and puna-harksaba, red kite, M. milvus.

Harku (Harku)

Small town SW of Tallinn, and Rural Municipality west of Tallinn in which direction, approximately, the street points.

Heina (Hein)

Hay. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See Lible.

Heki (Hekk)

1) Hedge; 2) Fence; 3) Bullfinch or; 4) Stern (of boat). According to TT, street started life as Vaikne (1924), then in 1959, year of municipal inimicality to toponymic topicality, mutated to Sume, hazy, dim, subdued... (for those with dramatic urges, Sume on öö is Tender is the Night), and, one year later, to its present name. Given its neighbor, Salu, probably the hedge.

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