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Veimeri A.
(Arnold Veimer, 1903-1977)
Communist – oxymoronically – economist. Head of the Stalinist puppet state (1944-1951). Enabled the 1949 ‘March Deportation’ of some 20,000 mainly women, children, infants and babies critical of the regime to Siberia. Awarded “Hero of Socialist Labor” in 1973, Order of Lenin three times, etc. Soviet occupation renaming (1981-1995) of Kivila.
Loite (Loide)
Fire, blaze. In this particular case, a solar flare. A checkered history: Lessingi, Lessingstraße, Лессингская ул., from 1884-1938, then Leegi, also fire, blaze, until 1939, flipping to Flammenstraße in 1942, when perhaps some confusion with a Nõmme street of the same name caused a switch, first to Vine, haze or wisp, which lasted for a year (1959) before settling on its present name in 1960.
Loode (Loe)
North-west, northwesterly (also high tide, neap tide or, plural, looded, tide, ebb and flow). Also noordvest or nordvest among sailors. Compass point with a twist! Loode is possibly derived from Proto-Finnic *loodeh giving Finnish luode, northwest (itself possibly related to Finnish luoja, creator, or to a hypothetical verb such as *luotaa, to descend), Karelian luuveh for west or southwest, Livonian lūod and Ludian luodeh for vanilla west, and back to Veps and Votic with lode / lodeh and loo / looto / looõ for northwest or west, or just as possibly derived from MLG lēden, to lead, and cognate with modern English lode. During the Middle Ages, the ‘Viking compass’ was rotated some 45° to 60° clockwise from the true, geographical compass, with norðr referring to northeast, not north, and northwest thus pointing north to the Lodestar (aka Polaris or North Star), which might explain why Estonian has actual, i.e. non-compound, names for the intercardinal directions (NE, SE, etc.) which, for them, were cardinal, see Edela. Formerly (1885-1923) Nürnbergi. See also Vesikaare.
Luise (Luise)
After the nearby summer estate called Luisental, after Louise von Steinheil, owner in 1791. By this time, France was on its 16th King Louis, and the name had had plenty of time to become fashionable.
