Jõe (Jõgi)

River, the river in question being the Härjapea which went through the standard slippery slope of many an urban river, with names to-ing and fro-ing between river and canal according to mindset of the day: Canalstraße (1881, first record), Härjapea-jõe tn, Alam-Jõe tn (lower river), Bachstraße (stream), Kanalstraße, Канальная ул (canal). In the mid-thirties, mains were laid, the water was diverted, and the bed filled in. The Soviet occupation saw a major change, switching (1974-1990), along with Pronksi and Liivalaia (1944-1972), to Kingissepa V.. Present name dates to 1990. To drink in Estonian is jooma to which the word is clearly related, both suggested from a common FU root, *juga, which may be related to a Turkic *jug- for ‘to swallow’ or Proto-Mongolic *uxu-, Mod. Mong. уух (uux), ‘to drink’.