Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

4 months ago

#Piibri (Piiber)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Raudalu
Alternative name for the #beaver from the {German {Biber, which seems to have gradually lost ground to the #Russian loan #Бобры, bobr, switching the bastard ‘b’ for the comfortable ‘k’ to produce #kobras, or #HarilikKobras, the European beaver,
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

Karuse (Karune)
Furry, also hairy, shaggy. One of the streets named after the nearby #RakuSovhoos (see #Piibri). There was also, incidentally, a Battle of Karuse on the ice off #Muhu in 1270 between the #LivonianOrder and Grand Duchy of Lithuania with, sadly, very few #Livonians left to say who won.