Silgu (Silk)
Baltic herring, small and/or salted or otherwise – olla nagu silgud pütis: to be packed like sardines. Could be considered synonymous with Räime but, as reflected in its Swedish etymon, sill, is often associated with the fish as dish, Estonian dictionaries and glossaries tending to tentatively precede the name with “(soola-)”, i.e. salted. Another Swedish side-dish of an etymon is sil, aka sik, generally thought to give Siia, whitefish, along with concomitant derogatory references to whitebait or fry, revealing a certain indifferent confusion towards these lowly fish. Part of a fish group. See also Silmu.