Names
Rõugu (Rõuk)
1) One of the stakes in the back of a farm cart holding the sides in place; 2) Hay or corn stacked on a triangular or A-shaped rack, or the rack itself. Given its immediate neighbors, Kubu, Vihu, etc., probably 2), but it is not without the realms of possibility that during the muddy 1840s the same wood may have served for both, such as a present-day USB key can be adroitly used to keep a window ajar.
Rukki (Rukis)
Rye. Part of a cereal-names street zone. See Kaera.
Rukkilille (Rukkilill)
Cornflower (lit. rye flower), bachelor’s button, bluebottle... Centaurea cyanus, National flower of Estonia. Once considered a weed in cornfields where the latter was once a generic term for any field containing corn, rye, wheat, etc.
Rulkoviuse
(Adolph Johann Rulcovius, 1796-1871)
Thus named (1885-1939, with various spellings, both c and k) after owner of underlying land who split it up (Wikipedia gives an unlikely date of 1878) to create the now Virmalise street network. The ‘Latin’ surname was probably a typical Linnaean class move to upgrade a standard surname, Рульков (Rulkov).
Rulli (Rull)
Roll, bobbin, reel, scroll. Parallel to Ratta.
Rumbi (Rumb)
Rhumb, loxodromic curve, any of the compass’s 36 points.
