Sossimäe (Sossimägi)

Rubbish tip? Slag heap? Read on… Seems this is a ‘legacy’ name that locals are familiar with, but dates and origins myths are missing. So let my add my own: soss has 4 acceptions: onomatopœia conveying a hissing sound; something steamy, synonymous with toss, or fizzling out (related is sosima, to whisper); duffer, dud, inept or weak-willed person (interestingly, someone a Brit might call a ‘tosser’!) where a soss-sepp (see Sepa) could be a bungler or jerry-builder; and, possibly, poor-quality sandy loam. Being in a former industrial zone, I wonder whether the accompanying waste may be involved…