Vana-Puka Manor

Vana-Puka in Sangaste parish carries a name with a goat in it. The original Puka manor, recorded from 1529, was first called Perende after an owner, Lippold Perend. In the late 16th century it passed to the Bock family, and since Bock or Buck means billy goat in German, the name varied between the two spellings: German settled on Bockenhof, Estonian on Puka. A Finnish linguist once suggested a link with the Finnish place name Putko instead, but that idea has been refuted. In the 18th century Puka was split into three, Old, Little and New Puka, all united under one owner again in 1819.