Munga (Munk)

Monk, friar. Renamed (1950-1987) as Müürivahe põik during the Soviet occupation. Earliest record dates to 1433 as monkestrate, followed by a gap until 1732 with variations around munkahoow (old Estonian spelling) and München-Hof, from MHG münech, münich or MLG mönik, etc., giving us the well-known German city of Munich, with an odd renaming as Speicherstraße in 1849 (TT, hmm...), but otherwise consistently monkish: Mönchstraße (1802), Münkenstraße (1872), etc.