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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

3 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.

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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

10 months ago

an object? a coin (münt:mündi, but also mint of the edible variety too). Was it also intended to be the mint itself? A mint in Estonian is #müntla (place of coin), #rahapaja (money + old suffix for smithy or workshop), or #mündikoda (coin chamber or house), but a coin can also be a #metonym for a
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