Names
Saadu (1] Saad; 2] Saat; 3] Saadu)
1] Cock, haycock, stack, rick, usually man-high and conical, generally temporary; 2] Suite, entourage; 3] Acquisition, something got – kuidas saadud, nõnda läinud: easy come, easy go. Located in a hay-making group, it must be 1, but its Saadu looks more like a partitive, not genitive, which should be sao, cf. Wiedemann’s sād:sāu from (or to?) Baltic-Ger. Sade. Recent addition to the mini hay-and-harvest group. See Sarra.
Saali A.
(Andres Saal, 1861-1931)
Estonian writer of patriotic historical fiction (studied photography in Germany, worked in Jakarta, retired and died in San Francisco...), street existed until late 1950s, south of Tartu mnt, halfway between and parallel to present-day Liivalaia and Kreutzwaldi F.R. Prior to this, the street was called Fruchtstraße or Фруктовая (Fruktovaya), fruit street (1907-1916), with the Estonian Puuvilja added afterwards (1908-1936), Saalstraße in 1942, and at one stage in its past as Дмитровка (Dmytrovka) which seems to be quite a common Russian toponym, but what its relevance here is is obscure. Kivi says nothing.
Saani (Saan)
Sleigh, sledge, a variety of which was the kosesaan, or bark sleigh, with bark-made surrounds protecting against the wind. Began life as Казарменная ул. and/or Kasernen Weg, barracks (-1870), then switched to Schlittengasse, sledge alley (odd, next to Suve), in 1882, Saani (1885) in Estonian and Санная (1907) in Russian.
Saaremaa (Saaremaa)
Saaremaa, Estonia’s largest island, emerging from the Baltic Ice Lake about 12,000 years ago, still wet around the edges. Formerly also known as Kure Saar, whence the name of its capital. Whereas Estonian is the only language in the world to have the ‘õ’ sound, a half-closed, non-rounded, central or posterior vowel as I’m sure you’d guessed, Saaremaa is the only part of Estonia which doesn’t. They even have Õ-voiced zoning signs for the mainlandedly confused. For those interested, Wiedemann’s dictionary uses six types of ‘O’: o, ō, ö, ȫ, õ and ȭ, which modern Estonian has narrowed down to o, õ, and ö. Another nicety in which Estonian prides itself is vowel length, claiming seven different durations: undershort, full-short, half-long, underlong, full-long, overlong and extra long, a wider range than you’d find in most gentleman’s outfitters. See Liiva. Part of an Estonian island group, see Vormsi, but not Hiiumaa which didn’t make the list...
