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Kammelja (Kammeljas)
Not the ‘camellia’ I was expecting, but turbot, Psetta maxima. Beware when buying flowers, kameelia BTW. Part of a fish group. See also Kilu.
Kessi (Kess)
Net bag (bag for putting nets in), backpack, pouch, wallet or basket made from birch bark or bast, cf. Hungarian kász-u, ‘a little container or pot made of bark’; both suggested as possibly related to Etruscan cesu, piece, trunk. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also Käba. Not to be confused with Kessu, eponymous partner in Robert Vaidlo’s children’s novel and later television series, Kessu ja Tripp (ja = and). Named at the same time (2003) as Kassi when which went where was a bit of a toss-up.
Kilu (Kilu)
Baltic sprat, brisling, Sprattus sprattus balticus. Interestingly, sprat when prepared (in oil, smoked, etc.) is called sprott in Estonian and used to be sprot in Old English too, as it was in Dutch from whom the name was more likely borrowed. Part of a fish group. See also Kudu.
Kiviranna (Kivirand)
Stone waterfront, rocky beach, etc., as it is, at the tip of the Kakumäe poolsaar (peninsula).
