and known as late as 1950 as #Умбая, whose ‘а’, given Russian’s so-called ‘lazy’ pronunciation of vowels, could sound like an ‘o’, causing or reflecting its final name of #Umboja in 1930, shedding an interesting light on possible causes of name shifts.
#NameChanges #Nimemuutused
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#Umboja (Umboja)
A brook which stops (or, rather, sinks into the ground) before entering a body of water, the body here being #Tallinn bay if ever a brook was there in the first place. Former farm name. As prefix, umb indicates among other
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Õismäe
#Farms #Talud
#Water #Vesi
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#VanaUmboja (Vana-Umboja)
See #Umboja. Street added to the opposite (western) side of the #Kakumäe peninsula, with one on one side and one on the other raising questions as to the location of the orginal farm.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
#FarmNames #TaludeNimede
