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Nepi (Nepp)

Snipe, which sounds and is derived from MHG snepfe or MLG snippe or sneppe (modern German Schnepfe). (It also means NEP, which, for any pre-geriatric still struggling through, means New Economic Policy, a Soviet-devised method of self-impoverishment). Two species breeding in Estonia:

  • Mudanepp, jack snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus
  • Rohunepp, great snipe, Gallinago media.

Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See also Pardi.