#Lõo (Lõo)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
Short for(?) #Lõoke and #Lõokene, see #Lõokese, where both the -ke and -kene endings are diminutives, short and long form respectively. An odd word of #ProtoGermanic origin, #*laiwarikōn- or, #*laiwazikōn-, losing the ‘w’ to give Eng. #lark, Swed. #lärkor,
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From #ProtoGermanic *khlaibuz or *χlaiƀa-z, to Mod. Ger. #Laib, Eng. #loaf, #Gothic #hlaifs, as well as #Russian #хлеб and #Polish #chleb or even, perhaps,# Latin #lībum (flat [unleavened?] bread) and #lībāre (to perform a sacrifice), hence Eng. #libation, indicating the huge socio-cultural
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as writing substrate (see #Tohu), #Germanic languages ‘book’ comes from #ProtoGermanic *bōk(ō)-, from *bokiz (beech) and #Italic languages ‘liber’ from #Latin #librum, the inner bark of trees.
#Literature #Kirjandus
#Education #Haridust
#Entertainment #Meelelahutus
#Ethnology #Etnoloogia
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opening and, in MLG that or anus, linguistically related to the #northernGermanic #Geats whose name seems to derive from a #ProtoGermanic verb *geuta-, ‘to pour’, something which passages do allow) and thence to our more modern meanings of passage; and the second, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ
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#Nordic sense of ‘way’, ‘street’ (cf. #Swedish #gata, #Danish #gade) as in #Nottingham’s Fisher or Carter gate, etc. #Gate has an odd, two-path etymology. The first from #PIE *ǵʰéd-, hole or 'to defecate', via #Greek, #χέζω, shit, to #ProtoGermanic *gatą to #OldEnglish ġeat (both meaning hole,
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Jugapuu (Jugapuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
Common or European yew, Taxus baccata. The word ‘yew’ in #English comes from #PIE *ei-wo- via #protoGermanic *iwa- or *iwo, which also gave #AngloSaxon îw, #French if, #Welsh ywen, #German Eibe, #Latvian īve, but maybe not #American Eew. Another
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#Palli (Pall)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
Ball. Also bale; rating and Beaufort number. Part of a mini game-name area, see Sihi. #Palli is also the only cobbled (munakivi, lit. egg stone) street in Nõmme. #English ‘#cobble’ may come from a #ProtoGermanic base *kubb- meaning something rounded, while
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nearby (see #Hiidtamme). The term seems to derive from #ProtoFinnic *hiici, thought originally to mean ‘burial ground’ and evolving into #Finnish #hiisi, devil, forest spirit, hell, etc. (but see #Hiiela), or perhaps a loan from #ProtoGermanic *χīđiz, for den or thicket.
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
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and Eng. fiend), a reasonable name for a fortress… Or, and this is easier to accept, from the nearby river called #Vääna! But, as approx. 66 M years of gallinaceous evolution warn us, was the river named for its meandering course (cf. #väänama, to twist, poss. from #ProtoGermanic *wenda-
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The term seems first to have meant a safe place to prepare ships, coming from #MLG rēde, reiide, rēt, rīde, etc., or #OldDutch rede(?), derived from #ProtoGermanic *raid ‘ready’ (yup, that too), with similar cognates in most ‘Northern’ languages, #OldFrisian, #OldNorse, etc.
#Odonymy #Odonüümia
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