Vesikupu (Vesikupp)
Water lily, nenuphar, Nuphar spp., aquatic plant of the Nymphaeaceae family. Common name of the waterlily shared with other confamiliar genera, and ‘nenuphar’ might apply more to Nymphaea alba, aka European white waterlily or white lotus. Status uncertain, unlisted pending KNAB update, Google maps shows a Pilliroo põik street-name sign, with Vesikupu overlay on road… Pretend it never happened*.
* NB: 2026 update - mileage may vary...
Teemeistri (Teemeister)
Highways supervisor. Streetname replacing some of the wilder excrescences of Pärnu.
Lõo (Lõo)
Short for Lõoke and Lõokene, see Lõokese, where both the ‑ke and ‑kene endings are diminutives, short and long form respectively. An odd word of Proto-Germanic origin, *laiwarikōn- or, *laiwazikōn-, losing the ‘w’ to give Eng. ‘lark’, Swed. lärkor, Ger. Lerchen, etc., as well as lõo and leevike (see Leevikese) and does not appear to exist as a standalone word anymore. Estonian diminutives are to linguists what “the one that got away” is to anglers, magnifying (or minimising) with each telling, in which another level of diminution can be tacked onto the previous one recursively, as a form or re-emphasis, and ‘some people’, mentioning no names, suspect that the long-form ‑kene diminutive is nothing less than a ‑ne diminutive of the ‑ke diminutive. Ignoring the yellow polka-dots for the minute (if you’ll excuse the pun), an “itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikini” (plural in Est., dammit) could, under very strained circumstances, translate as bikiinikesekesekesekesed – (Don’t!) – although they’d probably say pisikesekesekesekesed bikiinid. Or not. WTF…
Kivinuka (Kivinukk)
Stone/Stony corner (or paddock, see Tuulenurga) or, why not, ‘nook’, next to a wood of the same name attached to a former poolmõis (see Mõisa) first recorded as Ges. Kiwwiauk (1798, lit. ‘stone hole’ dependency) and thence, perhaps by an erroneous transmission into Ges. Kiwwinuk (1871, ‘stone corner’), after a local kurisu, (from kuri, originally poor or wretched, but evolving through Bible-speak to angry, evil, devil… + suu>su, mouth, see Kura) translated variously as ‘karst gorge (cleft or clough)’ or sinkhole. Now a transport hub.