Võra (Võra)
Top of a tree, crown of a forest. PSA: ‘crown shyness’ has nothing to do with shyness or any other emotional reason, but is a simple evolutionary consequence of bioeconomics.
Võrgu (Võrk)
Net (also mesh, network, web, grid, plexus, etc.). Named after a nearby net-making factory. Renamed (1980-2002) as Kalasadama during the Soviet occupation.
Vormsi (Vormsi)
Fourth largest island in Estonia, between Hiiumaa and mainland. Along with neighbouring mainland region of Noarootsi (Sw. Nuckö, poss. From Est. nukk:nuka, point/tip, i.e. cape, of which there are many), historical colonial homeland to Swedes known as Rannarootsi (coastal Swedes or, in Sw. Estlandssvenskar, Estonian Swedes) until WWII when most were evacuated or escaped to Sweden. Its original Swedish name, Ormsö, Snake/Worm island, with possible influence of its German name Worms, seems to have generated its Estonian counterpart through vernacular pronunciation of foreign words. Previously also called Hiiurootsi saar, Swedish Hiiumaa island. Part of an Estonian island group, see Aegna.
Võrgu V.
(Vassili Võrk, 1898-1977)
Colonel of the 8th Estonian Tallinn Rifle Corps (or Lieutenant Colonel of the 300th Rifle Regiment), commandant of Tallinn for three days in September 1944, the story of him converting three Red Army gentlemen attempting to acquire high-discount vodka from the Rosen (now Liviko) distillery into definitive teetotallers may well be apocryphal. Soviet occupation renaming (1979-1995) of Arbu.