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Kurni (Kurn)
Game involving six wooden pins to be knocked down by a cudgel, more often or accurately the pin itself. Played by Kalevipoeg as a child. Russian game of Городки (gorodki), lit.: ‘townlets’. Part of a mini game-name area. See Mängu.
Kurikneeme (Kurikneem)
Kurik’s Cape (point, headland, foreland) on Aegna island. Just south (±150m) of the cape at the end of this road is what looks like a group of erratic boulders with the very exotic name of Kliuhkakari, and south of that (±300m) are two other groups, Sitakari and Punakivi. While the first part of the first one sounds related to Russian ключ (klyuch), key (but why?), the second name could mean ‘shit rocks’ (check out Peldikukari at the northern tip of the same island, see Kari) and the third (there’s a Punane kivi on Prangli island 15 km ENE), why not, ‘ruddy rocks’? Interestingly, while a group of erratics is called a blockfield or a felsenmeer, (lit. sea of rock) couldn’t we twist the meaning of the latter slightly and use it for maritime blockfields? Please. See also Külaniidu. For other erratic-themed locations, see Lindakivi.
Kurereha (Kurereha)
Geranium, crane’s bill, Geranium spp. Names come from the shape of the spring-action fruit capsule allowing for seed dispersal resembling the beak of a crane: Latin: Geranion from Greek: γερανος (geranos): crane. Ditto Estonian: Kure, crane & reha, rake, the latter due to the appearance of the fruit capsule’s five ‘catapult arms’. One of a meadow flower or grass group. See Lõosilma.
