Kollane (Adj.)

Yellow. Named after the yellow-painted wooden barracks demolished in 1870. Street names indicated by an adjective (occasionally an adverb or attributive) are in the nominative. As to why, however, it is not quite clear: the street was never entirely yellow in the first place. Perhaps the thought that an adjective requires a noun? Or to avoid the awkward use of a substantivized adjective, ‘the yellow’, or the idea of ‘yellowness’ (kollasuse)? But while ‘yellow street’ is strange, ‘street of the yellow’ sounds strange, and that in itself is a greater wrong to inflict upon an innocent name. See also Punane.