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Kohtu (Kohus)
Law court, tribunal. First named Gerichtsstraße (court street) in 1882, after the Eestimaa ülemmaakohus or Supreme Court of Estonia which operated in the former Eestimaa Rüütelkonna maja, or House of Estonian Knighthood. Due, probably, to a nasty squabble with the French and others on the happy highway to Jerusalem during the 1st Crusade, German knights and other second-sons sought other sites for land-grabbing and went north to save the poor, pagan Livonians. The Brothers of the Sword and their later homies occupied Estonia from the 13th C, remaining in power through Danish, Swedish and Russian occupations, elevating themselves to Estonian Knighthood and filling nigh-on all magistratures.
Koge (Koge)
Cog (or cog-built ship), ship dating back to 10th C, usually oak, single mast, square sail, common Hansa trading vessel in the Baltic. By the 12th C, its capacious, high-sided design with true rudder made it capable of transporting up to 500 persons, and be used as either cargo or fighting ship. Street associated with Kaljase both lurking in the docks’ primeval ooze awaiting development. In 2022, a 24.5-m long, 9-m broad cog dating back to around 1350 was unearthed under Lootsi 8, between 2 liquor stores, in what there could be called the primeval booze.
Kõivu (Kõiv)
Alternative, dialectical and/or Võro* term for Kase (cf. koivu in Finnish, kõuv in Livonian, and koiv in Veps). Counterpart in antiquity to Lõhmuse. Variants include arukõiv (see Arukaskede); marokõiv (see Kase [above]), and sookõiv (see Sookaskede). Tree/shrub group, see Leedri.
* Strictly, Võru, but the ‑o ending is proper to the Võro language/dialect, and was also proposed by Hurt (see Oti) as part of the Estonian language reform (see also Aate) to replace the ‑u ending, but it didn’t catch on.
