Names
Silgu (Silk)
Baltic herring, small and/or salted or otherwise – olla nagu silgud pütis: to be packed like sardines. Could be considered synonymous with the actual fish, Räime, but, as reflected in its Swedish etymon, sill, is often associated with the fish as dish, Estonian dictionaries and glossaries tending to tentatively precede the name with “(soola-)”, i.e. salted. Another Swedish side-dish of an etymon is sil, aka sik, generally thought to give Siia, whitefish, along with concomitant derogatory references to whitebait or fry, revealing a certain indifferent confusion towards these lowly fish. Part of a fish group. See also Silmu.
Silikaadi (Silikaat)
Silicate. Soviet occupation renaming (1939; 1950-1990) of Risti, after the local building-materials industry started by one of Estonia’s Über-Ministers (Labor, Welfare, War and Roads), Oskar Amberg (1878-1963) in the early 1920s. 1.5 km from the sand and concrete materials group, see Silikaltsiidi.
Silikaltsiidi (Silikaltsiit)
Silicalcite, aka silicate concrete, a building-material more commonly known as Laprex, invented and manufactured by Johannes Hint (brother of Aadu Hint, see Vesse), perhaps the only businessman under Soviet occupation to form a joint-venture with the outside world (Austria). Hint was arrested under trumped-up charges in 1981 and sentenced to 15 years. He died of heart attack in Patarei prison (see Suur-Patarei) in 1985. Street home to Silikaat AS, Estonia’s oldest(?) sand and silicate product producers. Part of a sand and concrete materials group, see Kukermiidi.
