Odra (Oder)

Barley. Not in the cereal-names street zone (see Kaera) but close to a former brewery, Rewalia, belonging to the Saku Õlletehas (beer-manufacture) company, most of which left Tallinn in 1911 and returned to its home-town of Saku where beer had been brewed on the Saku estate since 1820, leaving some offices and a bottling-plant in the former St Michael’s Convent (see Nunnadetagune torn). In 1928, the then standard half-toop bottle was phased out in favor of the 0.5-liter; although what exactly a toop – a shtoff or stoup in English apparently – was is not clear. It seems to have been a metal mug used both for measuring and for drinking, representing one tenth of a pang, another unit of measurement, or bucket (and, declining pang:pange, no relation to Panga), but this would have been the Russian toop (1.23 liters). The Tallinn toop was 1.18. Measurement units in the past were highly variable. TT, on the other hand, relates it to proximity to Maneeži, which makes sense too. Known first (1882) in the German, Gerstenstr., then Russian (1907), Ячменная ул, for barley, one year before becoming Estonian.