Dominiiklaste (Dominiiklased [pl.])

Dominican friars (Sing.: Dominiiklane), see Katoliku hoov. Neither this location nor the next, Dunkri, appear in Kivi’s Tallinna Tänavad of 1972. Although today this is a hoov (from Ger. Hof, courtyard), it used to be an õu (prob. an FU word for door or gate, e.g. Finnish & Karelian ovi; Mansi āwi; or Votic övvi, courtyard; etc.) from 1970-80. Not quite sure what the difference is: both may be translated by courtyard, but perhaps, like the English dyads of bull and beef (from French bœuf), sheep and mutton (Fr mouton), etc., where the foreign (read invader and consequently aristocratic) label gave greater percieved psychological value. Although the õu may reflect a social reclaming of Estonian heritage instead. Remember too that for many years ‘non-German’, Est. mittesaksa, Ger. undeutscher, was a term reflecting inferior status, generally of Estonians, but possibly other outsiders too (Russians, Finns, Swedes...). For example, members of the merchants’ guilds, Germans almost by necessity, forbade its members to marry Estonians, and while German was believed to be one of the 72 languages remaining after the fall of the Tower of Babel, Estonian was, I think, not.