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.