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Järve (Järv) Symbol designating a Tallinn "Asum", or Sub-district.

Lake. The one in question being Ülemiste. Relationships unclear. Most FU languages have very similar cognates for lake: Finnish järvi, Livonian jōra, Sami jávri, etc., but järv could well be an early loan from Proto-Baltic *jaur-, a root involving liquids such as Lithuanian jauris, swamp and jūra, sea, cognates with Albanian hurdë, pond, and Armenian ջուր (ǰur, water), and even English urine, itself cognate with Latin urinare, to dive. Aren’t we lucky!