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Siia (Siig)
Whitefish, laveret. Two sorts, salt and freshwater: merisiig, common or European whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, and Peipsi siig, Peipsi whitefish, C. l. maraenoides. Part of a fish group. See also Silgu.
Sikuti (Sikuti)
Traditionally, the combined short rod (very short for trolling through ice holes in winter), line and trolling spoon (i.e. hook(s) with fish- or spoon-shaped lure), sometimes translated word-for-word from mänguõng as playing-hook, but nowadays more commonly just the business end. In southern (and eastern?) Estonian dialects, notably around (or on...) Lake Peipsi, they tend to say sikuska (and sometimes tirk, see Tirgu) due to Russian influence with communities dating back to the 17th C when Old Believers migrated there following the religious schism, раскол (raskol, hence Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov) of 1666. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also Sumba.
Silmu (Silm)
Lamprey. Two sorts: jõesilm, European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis, and ojasilm, European brook lamprey, L. planeri. Interestingly, aged 21, Sigmund Freud wrote a paper on the anatomy of the lamprey’s notochord (Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nerven-wurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes Petromyzon planeri [name since corrected]). Part of a fish group. See also Säina.
Soolahe (Soolaht)
Marshy inlet or bay.
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