Alevi (Alev)

Short for Alevipoeg, Alev’s son. According to Kreutzwaldi, cousin and fighting companion of the epic hero Kalevipoeg, Kalev’s son, or, possibly, rhyming variant of Kalev’s name (see Kalevipoja and Olevi), but the street creation dates (here 1912 or 1923) don’t seem to match its peers’. Another meaning, implied by TT’s comment that the street was built at an early stage of Tallinn’s ‘districtification’, is small market-town, ‘borough’, ‘second-degree urban settlement’ or village, and may (see TAAK) refer to its current Division of Kitseküla).