Kivinuka (Kivinukk)

Stone/Stony corner (or paddock, see Tuulenurga) or, why not, ‘nook’, next to a wood of the same name attached to a former poolmõis (see Mõisa) first recorded as Ges. Kiwwiauk (1798, lit. ‘stone hole’ dependency) and thence, perhaps by mispronunciation to Ges. Kiwwinuk (1871, ‘stone corner’), after a local kurisu, (from kuri, originally poor or wretched, but evolving through Bible-speak to angry, evil, devil… + suu>su, mouth) translated variously as ‘karst gorge (cleft or clough)’ or sinkhole. Now a transport hub.