Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

5 months ago

#Põlde (Põllu [pl.])
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kakumäe
Former #FarmName. #Põlde is the #PartitivePlural (which I don’t really grasp, but see #Intro) of #põld, so ‘Some of the fields’? See #Põllu. But põld was sometimes used as a #metonym for ‘croft’ or other small-scale peasant farmholding.

#TaluNimi

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

6 months ago

#Latvian #lauks (or tīrums) and #Lith. #laukas, #Võru #põld and #nurḿ and #Livonian #nuŗm which latter are cognates with Est. #nurm (meadow, field, lea…). Briefly (1940-41) known as #Põllumehe, farmers (sing. #Põllumees). Parallel to #Saha.

#Geography #Geograafia
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

6 months ago

My suggestion is an ur-põld related to #põletama, to burn, and a #põld to be, unlike #Niit (see #Niidu) and #Nurm (see #Nurme), a field resulting from slash and burn. There: I said it. And if #German were such a driving force in FU languages, why not their southern neighbors too:
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