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Tiskrevälja (Tiskreväli)

Area/Land outside/around the former Tiskre village. Earlier iterations of the name include Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach, 1522), Diskerkulle (Tiskre village, 1531) and Tischer (manor, 1798, see Mõisa). DEPn implies an MLG Discher origin for Tischer, equivalent to mod. Ger. Tischler, carpenter or furniture-maker, but as any Smith, Wright or Fletcher would know, trades often end up as personal names. See Välja.

Toomapere (Toomapere)

Thomas’s family, household, farm. Farm group. See also Tõnu.

Vaagi (Vaak)

Not ‘weighing-scales’ as originally thought (vaag:vae or vaag:vaaki), but flowering-plants of the Inula genus, with three species growing in Estonia: aedvaak, the elecampane of multiple medico-mythical properties named after Helen of Troy from whose tears it sprung (botanists remain sceptical) and used in making absinthe, Inula helenium; pajuvaak (willow/osier vaak), the Irish fleabane or willowleaf yellowhead, I. salicina; and inglise vaak, the British yellowhead, I. britannica.

Vahepere (Vahepere)

The name of a former local farm/farming-family: ‘the farm in between’ or ‘middle farm’. Farm group. See also Eevardi.

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