Sompa (village)Sompa is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia.NameSompa was attested in historical sources as Soenpe in 1420, Sompäh in 1496, and Sompæ in 1796. Andrus Saareste and Lauri Kettunen interpreted the e in the historical spelling Soenpe as an extension of the root and reconstructed the original form *Soonpää ' head/end of the swamp'. The n in the reconstructed name is the former ending of the Estonian genitive case, and it has changed to m through assimilation to the following p.