#Livonian kouvõ, €Finnish and #Votic kaivaa for to dig or dig up, and more distantly from eastern FU languages for spade: #Erzya, kojme; #Moksha, kajmä; #Nganasan, kaibu, etc. Even so, the two #PIE roots – *keue-, swelling, arch, cavity, and *keup-, a hollow (see #Palli)
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
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#Kaevuri (Kaevur)
Today is Kopli day!
#Tallinn #Põhja-Tallinn #Kopli
Miner, digger. One of a mini trade-name area, see also #Sepa. Despite its superficial and/or coincidental resemblance to ‘cave’ and ‘excavate’, the word is related to other close-neighbor FU terms such as
#Cognates #Sugulased
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#Treiali (Treial)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Lathe-operator, turner. One of a mini trade-name area, see also #Kaevuri. To say this street is odd is an understatement, even by Tallinn standards… It starts happily enough close to the #Russo-BalticShipyard,
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Päev 709. Tiblad saatsid UA peale 24 drooni. 11 võeti maha ja 7 eksisid ise ära või panid sihtmärgist mööda. Krõvõi Rihs põhjustasid need elektrikatkestused, mistõttu üle 100 kaevuri maa alla lõksu jäid. Enamus on praeguseks välja saadud. EL võttis vastu 50 miljardise abipaketi.

Interstingly, the road is still cobbled and looks like it's been that way for hundreds of years.
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nicely cobbled and cuddling around the pretty little #Nicolas church and keeping the sea at bay, then splits off eastwards to cross the track towards the seaward ‘lines’ (#3.liin to #5.liin), but doesn’t get there! Gone. 10 m down the hill you reach #Liinevahe.
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in #Hebrew kubbah, קבה, a round, vaulted tent, with neighboring words such as kabar, קבר, for to bury or pile earth on top of a dead body, and kubbaath, קבעת, for a chalice of flowers or a cup used for drinking, all of which suggesting a curved shape.
#Connections #Ühendused
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– are not a million miles away, and #digging is obviousy a very early and widespread human activity. Interestingly, ‘alcove’ (see #Teeääre) comes via #Spanish #alcoba itself from #Arabic, either #al-qubba meaning a #dome, #cupula or small bedroom, or #al-kauf, a nook for sleeping,
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its #German #Kopfstein (lit. head(-shaped)-stone, nothing to do with cemeteries) is derived from the same #PIE root of *keup-, a hollow, as #English ‘cup’ (see #Kaevuri) and not, surprisingly, from PIE *#kaput-, head (see #Hobusepea), opposite ends of the same hemisphericity, although the two
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