Names
Vihu (Vihk)
1) Sheaf (usually harvested cereals, but also leaves, etc.), probably related to viht:viha, the sauna birch-twig whisk (which shares the same Proto-Germanic origin (*wisk-), and vihisema (to whistle, sough, swish), possibly reflecting the sound made by the scythe as it mows the grass or cereal. For those less intimate with harvesting, the sequence goes like this: the corn, or other crop is scythed, the resulting swathe of cereal is gathered and tied into sheaves; the sheaves are then bundled and stacked into stooks (caution, stack and stook are partial synonyms); the stooks then stooked into stacks, cocks or ricks. (In Eng., there is considerable overlap in hay-stacking terms: cock, rick, shock and stook, with or without a preceding ‘hay’, and the situation is similar in Est. see Auna, Haki, Kahlu, Kuhja, Nabra), all of which end their miserable lives in hamburger buns for which – and I shit you not – there is a futures’ market for unsold waste. I shall avoid all reference to farmers of yesteryear ‘just doing it’ and ‘swoosh’. 2). Book part, installment or fascicle. Part of a harvest street-name group. See Hargi.
Vihuri (Vihur)
Whirlwind. Renamed under the Soviet occupation along with Tuulemaa (1953?-1995) as Belinski V.. Oddly, the streets join the same road, Kari, but don’t actually meet. Perhaps the wind and the lack of connections merited its association with a literary critic?...
Viidika (Viidikas)
Bleak (a fish, Alburnus alburnus, for those in doubt). Known in Welsh as gorwyniad. Part of a fish group. See also Vimma.
Viige (?)
Old farm name. As to actual meaning?... Viiga and Viigi are recorded as forenames in the Tartu region. Plenty for viik:viigi: fig (not that common in the Tropics of Vismeistri), draw or tie, tapeworm, and crease. Another dialectal meaning of viik:viigi is bay or cove, which makes vague sense, the street is roughly between Kakumäe and Kopli bays, about 2 & 1 km respectively, but still i not e. Wiedemann has wigl/wiglas:wigla for pitchfork (with more than 2 prongs); and wigle:wigle for godwit or snipe; so lots of straw-clutching but little concrete which is hardly the best choice when you’re sinking anyway… Last shot: I’ll suggest an unrecorded genitive of an old(?) Estonian man’s name Viik(us), which could legitimately genitivize as Viige (see Luige and Kiige).
Viimsi (Viimsi)
Name of a small borough and manor house (German: Wiems) located a few km east of Tallinn, first mentioned in 1471. Settlements date back to late Bronze Age.
