Fišmeistri (Fišmeister)

Listed as an example of some of the spellings the name has undergone: Vismestere (1515), Fischmeistri, Fišmeistri, Vissmeistri, wiskmeister (1732), Fischmeister, Vischmeyster, Висмейстри & Фишмейстре / Фишмейстеръ (Vismeystri / Fishmeystre). Writing and written records can do only pale justice to the infinite variety of sounds the ear can hear and mouth and memory can reproduce, a drop in the ocean of language history. See Rannamõisa & Vismeistri.