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Vikimõisa (Vikimõis) 
2023 addition to Tallinn’s streets, currently in the planning stage, named after former manor house.
Ülemistejärve (0) 
See Ülemiste and Järve. NB: we’re at the end of the dictionary so it should be clear by now. The lake itself is a place-name and thus nominative, Ülemiste Järv, while this is the District of and therefore genitive, and, being a District name, does not seem to even have a nominative (see Nõmme).
Sõjamäe (Sõjamägi)
Tricky, literally War Hill, its meaning could range from Soldiers’ Knoll, Martial Mountain, Battle Bump, to Bruise. Military vantage point / observation post sound good too. Most faithful, however, is Battle Hill (see Mäe for discussion). Comes in all sizes: Väike (Small), Kesk (Medium), Suur (Large), and, forgive the mixed metaphors, Vanilla. Named after manor house (see Mõisa) itself named after what is believed to be the site of a battle following the Jüriöö Ülestõus (St. George’s Night Uprising) of 1343-04-23 where the Teutonic Order killed some 3000 Estonians in an orgy of attrition and revenge.
Sibulaküla (Sibulaküla)
Onion village. Named after the small plots of ‘farmland’ or allotments around the Kaasani orthodox church, many of which grew onions, or after the church’s typical onion-shaped dome. The church – completed in 1721, severely damaged during the March 1944 bombing, icons looted in the 1970s, and partially burnt down on the night of 2009-07-15 – remains the oldest surviving wooden church in Tallinn. Its cemetery was probably destroyed in the early 1770s along with others in Tallinn following the Moscow plague riots of 1771. See Mõigu.
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