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 *h₂ék^weh₂, 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.