Names
Söödi (Sööt)
Fallow land. Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See Timuti.
Sookailu (Sookail)
Labrador tea or wild rosemary, lit. marsh march tea, Rhododendron tomentosum (syn. [i.e. formerly] Ledum palustre), a traditional folk remedy for coughs. Street planned but never built.
Sookaskede (Sookased [pl.])
Sing.: sookask aka karune kask (hairy birch), sokikask (although this reads like ‘sock’ birch, Wiedemann gives it as a genitive of sokk:soki ‘juice’, i.e. the sap that locals drink [see Mähe], I mean, the buggers don’t just stop at hugging trees…), sookõiv (marsh birch), suukõiv (‘mouth’ birch, but poss. a dialect form of soo), downy, white, European white or hairy birch, Betula pubescens, presumably the one that younger Estonians use to flagellate themselves in the sauna.
Soolahe (Soolaht)
Marshy inlet or bay.
Soone (Soon)
Little spring or stream, after the (now essentially covered, see Trummi) winding brooklet it crosses, Iisaku soon (Iisaku spring, source about 1 km WSW away). Iisaku itself probably comes from the Ger. name Isaak. The same word also means: 1) a groove or a slot; 2) a lode or a vein; 3) a vessel, vein, artery or duct; 4) a gutter or channel; and 5) for those with an inordinate interest in insects: trachea (for humans, it tends to be hingetoru (lit. soul‑ or, more reasonably, breath-tube) or trahhea. I'll stop and won't mention the thingies inside fiber-optic cables that ferry the pulse of modern existence.
Sooranna (Soorand)
Edge of a marsh, beach by a marsh.
