Names
Pikse (Pikne)
Once an otherworldly ruler of the weather, also and otherwise known as Äike, Kõu, Paristaja, or Pikker (see Pikri) (although Kõu and Pikker are usually considered to be brothers, sons of Uku), apparently related to Lithuanian Perkūnas (from PIE *perkwunos, giving also rise to Celtic Taranis and Irish Tuireann, Norse Thor, Slavic Perun and, it seems, Vedic Parjanya), a Baltic god of thunder associated with the oak (*perkwus is PIE for oak [cf. Latin quercus], fir or ‘wooded mountain’, and also signifying toughness or strength); today, a thunderstorm, more commonly known as äike. Non-existent street (or woodland path?) next to Välgu, another non-existent street (they’ll clear the forest one day, unless they’re hoping that an appeal to the god of electro-celestial tree-hugging might do it for them). Pikne (Pitkne, old spelling) was also another term for snake.
Piksepeni (Piksepeni)
Lit. Thunderstorm dog (peni, or penni or pini), is an alternative or dialect word for dog, more common in the southern half of Estonia, cf. Livonian piņ, but see also Eastern Sámi pienneoi in Eerikneeme, or beana in Northern(?) Sámi. Strictly, a woolly bear: caterpillar of the Arctiidae moth family, but also name of the scarlet tiger moth itself, Callimorpha dominula and probably used, as in English, for a variety of hairy caterpillars (see also Kannustiiva). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Päevakoera.
Pille (Pille)
A woman’s name, popular in the 1920s & 30s. Street co-created with its crossroad Tiiu in 2009, possibly influenced by Õilme. Name perhaps derived from Sibülle, Estonian spelling of Sibyl, the oracle, not sibul, the onion (see Sibulaküla).
