Alemaa (Alemaa)

Ale is one of Estonia’s various slash-and-burn terms for a plot of cleared, burnt land ready for planting. Other dialect words for the same or very similar include saat (in the Mulgi or Viljandi dialect), sõõrd (in the Tartu & Võru dialects but see also Sõõru) and uht (apparently, in the Lääne [Western] dialect), so this means assart, grubbed land, forest-clearing, swidden. Part of a land-clearing group of streets, see also Põlendiku.