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Kungla (Kungla)
A sort of pseudomythological Estonian Arcady that found its way into 19th‑C Estonian writers’ minds and books. Believed invented by Kreutzwaldi F.R. and probably Esto-Swedish for place of king(s). The Swedish island of Gotland, Ojamaa in Est. (lit. island ‘land’, see Hiiu for long-winded and extremely rambling discussion), is named Kungla on some old maps. Estonia Klaverivabrik AS, the ‘Estonia’ piano works is at No.41.
Kummeli (Kummel)
Camomile, Latin name debated. Plant beloved by new-agers for treating alcohol withdrawal, asthma, bronchitis, colic, cough, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, ear infection, brain extraction and nuclear winters. Street name with longest (?) anagram: Lemmiku, which might explain its popularity. One of the Mähe flower-name group, see Kõdra.
Kume (Kume)
Hollow or dull sound, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). The old Baltic-German kumm:kumme (deep, round bowl or dish) is not very helpful. Part of an oddly-concocted and non-contiguous sinister-street area (See also Kura and Kõnnu). Usually declined kume:kumeda, the present genitive may also be used, but since one of its earlier names was Kuma (glimmer, gleam, shimmer), the meaning is probably of the “It was a dark and stormy night” variety.
