#jalg

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

2 months ago

Photograph of the fiddle-fern, showing the typically curled distal tips of the fronds, erm, appropriately curled, taken from the www.thespruce.com website

Photograph of the lady-fern, showing a very common growth of the fern family in general, taken from the www.nativefoodsnursery.com website.

#Sõnajala (Sõnajalg)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Fern (lit. word-leg or ‑foot). Oddly, #Estonian does not differentiate foot from leg (both #jalg) or hand from arm (both #käsi). Then again, #English seems...
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

9 months ago

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Pikk jalg.

View along Pikk jalg, Tallinn, in the uphill direction towards the Toompea Väike linnus (smaller citadel) and so on.

Archway beneath Pikk jalg tower, Tallinn.

View of the Pikk jalg tower, in Pikk jalg, Tallinn.

#Pikk Jalg (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
First recorded as longus mons (1342), this is perhaps the clearest indication of what a #jalg is geographically. Since #Estonian doesn’t specifically differentiate #leg from #foot (see, e.g., #Sõnajala), what’s referred to here is
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

10 months ago

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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