Names
Kriidi (Kriit)
Chalk, not just the stuff of schools, but also soft, fine-grained limestone. Name chosen, for want of anything better, from a list of building materials including Krohvi (krohv: plaster, rendering, or thick layer of make-up) and Mördi (mört: mortar). Word derived, ultimately, from Lat. creta, ‘Cretan earth’, the white clay abundant on the island of Crete (thus known since ±1500 BCE, making it unlikely to be of Celtic origin, as sometimes suggested), and also gives the name Cretaceous which, to round things up, is called Kriit in everyday Estonian.
Kristiina (Kristina Augusta, 1626-1689)
One time Queen, or ‘Girl King’ of Sweden, Duchess of Estonia, etc., whose possible thoughtlessness may have precipitated Descartes’ terminal inability to think. Multiple former names of miscellaneous orthography but limited interest other than, maybe, Christinentalerstraße (1913) indicating a valley, sensu Estonia, equivalent elsewhere in the world to a modest puddle. Built on former Kristiina heinamaa, or Kristiina meadow. See also Kristiine.
