Sīkrõg

Etymology
It is difficult to draw conclusions on the name of,. According to A. Bīlenšteins the term is simply a compound of Latvian. The Finnish linguist Valentin Kiparsky is convinced that it is impossible to find a plausible Finnic etymology for this term. Only the first component according to him could be derived from the Livonian name of a fish sīg ( in ), compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, although this lexeme can be found in Latvian as well, some linguists, however, consider it a borrowing from Finnic, although parallels can be found in Germanic and Slavic languages.

According to a folk etymology interpretation the first component is.

There have been many speculations on the second component. There are approximately 60 toponyms on the Latvian coast with this component (including and  (their etymologizations have been very different, however, q.v.))  is probably the most likely source. According to V. Kiparsky this would suggests that the location was initially inhabited by Latvians. It is also possible that the compound is made up of components from two different languages.

Proper noun

 * Sīkrõg – Sīkrõg – Sīkrags
 * Sīkrags – Sīkrags – Sīkrags
 * Sīkrõg – Sīkrõg – Sīkrags
 * Sīkrags – Sīkrags – Sīkrags

Usage notes
This term has open space locative forms: allative, adessive , ablative.