Names
Kivinuka (Kivinukk)
Stone/Stony corner (or paddock, see Tuulenurga) or, why not, ‘nook’, next to a wood of the same name attached to a former poolmõis (see Mõisa) first recorded as Ges. Kiwwiauk (1798, lit. ‘stone hole’ dependency) and thence, perhaps by an erroneous trasmission into Ges. Kiwwinuk (1871, ‘stone corner’), after a local kurisu, (from kuri, originally poor or wretched, but evolving through Bible-speak to angry, evil, devil… + suu>su, mouth, see Kura) translated variously as ‘karst gorge (cleft or clough)’ or sinkhole. Now a transport hub.
Kivipere (Kivipere)
Stone homestead, probably an old farm name.
Kiviräha (Kivirähk)
Gravel. Bit of a pleonasm since rähk:räha means shingle already. An offshoot of Korese, also pending paving. Mini-group of road-material-related roads. Still under planning, for now just a mud track into the woods.
Kiviranna (Kivirand)
Stone waterfront, rocky beach, etc., as it is, at the tip of the Kakumäe poolsaar (peninsula).
Kiviriku (Kivirik)
Saxifrage, Saxifraga spp. Estonian name reflects the Latin: saxum, coarse, unworked stone, rock, & frangere, to break: kivi, stone, rock, & ‑*rik, defect, ruin, decay, both indicating the plant’s capacity to send its roots into cracks and slowly cause them to split.
Kivisilla (Kivisild)
Stone bridge, after one that used to span the Härjapea river. Formerly, a suburb of Tallinn (roughly, today’s Maakri, Rävala, Tartu & Tornimäe... area). Renamed under Soviet occupation (1957-1991), along with Reimani V., as Anveldi J..
