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Auto (Auto)
Car, automobile. Soviet naming (1927-2001) of today’s Nugise. Despite being the former USSR colony with the highest GDP, as well being as one of the smartest countries on the planet, put a male Estonian in a car and the electro-magnetic radiation short-cuts all and every genetic up-grade since Neanderthals roamed the earth. Beware.
Hiiu-Rahu (Hiiu-Rahu)
Hiiu* quiet / tranquility, calm, peace, truce. Soviet occupation renaming (1987-1991) of Rahu.
* See footnote to Hiiu-Maleva.
Kaasani (Kaasan)
After Kaasani kirik, Our Lady of Kazan church, reputedly built for the army (completed 1721). The double ‘a’ at the beginning of the word is typical of Estonian word imports: where the emphasis is on the 2nd of a 2-syllable word, Estonian may start by pronouncing it as it should be but soon domesticates it by bringing it forward. For example, the buttermilk kefír became keefir and divan became diivan. Street dismembered and interred beneath Liivalaia. Known as Kleine Sandstraße / Väike-Liiva in 1850, then Andersoni after a family of local residents and butchers (1865).
