Arched stairway leading to Tallinn's Lühike Jalg. See previous image alt text.

journey or a race, while ‘foot’ commonly applies to hills and mountains, as it does here. Since #jalg is so obviously related to #jalutama (to walk), perhaps, given the slope, it was used to emphasize the difficulty in going up by carriage or cart, and while ‘Long Foot’ may be correct-ish in
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