Rangu (Rank?)

Reportedly a name related to haymaking, a stack/stook of stale or musty hay (Nerman & Lõhmus, but word neither found nor conclusive, despite its being named in 2000*. Viires translates rank as ‘trough’ (W. Est. dialect, but provides no genitive) where ranga seems a more common genitive anyway; Forssmann gives rank:ranga as boulder, rock or obstacle; Wiedemann rank:rangi, also trough, or row (of plants), or cross-references rank:ranga to ränk which doesn’t get us very far either, and not a genitive ‑u in sight. At one stage in my sorry past, I found a rank:rangu for ‘ridge or ‘rocky bank’ and a Muhu dialect term for fly, now vanished from the face of the cloud and which we can probably disregard. Plus a Rangu village in Raplamaa, poss. originating from the German name Rank. Unresolved. Mini hay-and-harvest group. See Saadu.

* A possible example of Hamilton’s 4^th Law, where very recent naming may borrow terms which might have existed prior to written record if not usage ;o)

Rannamõisa (Rannamõis)

Manor by the beach, stately home in Keila (German name: Strandhof). Formerly Tiskre, Fišmeistri., Strandhofscher Weg, Tischerscher Weg (the result of a typo for the next one?), Fischmeisterscher Weg, and oddly Раннамыйза-теэ, ул., or Rannamõisa-road Road.

Sopi (Sopp)

The end of a body of water, creek… A rather tricky word: meresopp is an arm of the sea, while tänavasopp is the end of a street and mälusopp a corner of the memory, while sopp alone can either mean a nook or cranny, a pouch or the bottom or deep recess of a sack, or, perhaps more usually, a long fishing-net with a rectangular opening. The street-name was planned for use between the new 2014 streets of Soodi and Lammi, but was thought too similar to the former, running the risk of mistakes and therefore dropped (but see Pagi).