#Kivi (Kivi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
#Stone, #rock, #boulder. Judging by the large number of cognates (among other things) – kivi #Finnish, #Karelian, #Izhorian, #Olonets, Ludian & #Veps), tšivi (#Votic, for stone, flint, millstone...), ki’v (and variants, #Livonian), кӱ (#Mari),
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'Raamatukoi' bookshop in Harju, Tallinn.

Bas relief sculpture on a wall in Harju, Tallinn.

Earliest records give #Harien (1212), #Harriæn and #Hæriæ (1241) and there may have been no initial ‘h’. No consensus as to original meaning. The word is said to sound like various #Finnish, #Karelian, #Olonets, etc., words for ridge, harja ‘peak; crest of a mountain’,
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