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Viadukti (Viadukt)

Viaduct. Carrying the Tallinn-Väike narrow-gauge railway line.

Vee (Vesi)

Water. After the tower supplying trains on the Tallinn-Väike railway line. Water seems to share a rather confusing pool of common ancestors from very far back, with Est. & Finn. vesi and Uralic *weti corresponding to PIE root *wed-, whence Sanskrit उदन् (udán), water or wave, cf. Latin unda, wave, moving water, or later PIE *woder- / *wod‑or, Hittite: 𒉿𒀀𒋻 (wa-a-tar), Anc. Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) cf. hydro, Old Church Slavonic voda (Russian ‘vodka’ being a diminutive), Gothic watō, Eng. water, Gael. uisge (whence whiskey, water of life, from Old Ir. uisce ‘water’ + bethu ‘life’) and all the other ‘wets’: Ger. Wasser from OHG waʒʒar, Welsh dŵr, etc., while Lat. agua and offspring, Fr. eau, Romagnol aqua, acva or Venetan àcua or àcoa, are from the helpfully recontructed PIE *h2ékweh2, as well as, maaaybee, Tupi ‘y’, a fraught rabbit-hole I will not enter. As to Sanskrit’s अप् (ap), Sogdian /⁠ap⁠/, Romanian apă, and so on, I give up (there may have been a ‘q’ to ’p’ transition somewhere). One of a small locomotive-themed group next to Tallinn-Väike station. Sometimes, it’s best to just shut up. See Vile.

Veduri (Vedur)

Locomotive, iron horse. Interesting: vedama means to draw or pull, and vedu:veo means draft/draught or conveyance, but vee is water and, in many countries, the traditional course of long-distance haulage was the river. So instead of using the sluggish meandering motorway, they took an infinitely small proportion of its water, made steam, and shunted tons of metal along an unbending iron road. Etymology is the paleontology of words: fractured glimpses of one-off usages out of the infinite variations of the collective idiolect. One of a small locomotive-themed group next to Tallinn-Väike station. See Vee.

Siduri (Sidur)

Clutch (of cars, not chickens). The word can also mean coupler, the device used for attaching railway wagons together, particularly tempting since the street is within the Tallinn-Väike railway street set, but no... After much soul- (and spare-part) searching, having seriously considered Aku (battery), Remondi (repair), Piduri (brake), Rehvi (tire) and Velje (wheel-rim), it was named for the immediate vicinity’s history of garages. Such are the great enterprises of this world rewarded...

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