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Kumalase (Kumalane)
Bumblebee, aka kimalane. The usual term for a bee is mesilane (± honey-dweller, but see Kirilase), and neither the kumu nor kima source is known, possibly of Slavic origin, but?.... Odd, for a social insect, they’ve left this street on its own.
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.
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.
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.
