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Künka (Küngas): Mount, small hill, butte, knoll, hummock (see Mäe). King of the Castle is künkakuningas.
Künnapuu (Künnapuu)
Called European white or fluttering elm by the Brits and Russian elm by the Americans, Ulmus laevis. Interesting names! The first part comes from künnap (sinew, tendon, indicating its strength) and the Latin species name looks like a Latinised genitive of Estonian laev (ship). Appropriate, since its highly water-resistant timber has long been used for underwater piles, water pipes and ship-building. Sadly, it’s not. Despite Latinists rejecting the æ or ae in the word, botanists like it so there we are, and levis simply means ‘light’ or ‘smooth’, more the hairless variety, hence also youth and pallor, hence ‘white elm’.
Künni (Künd)
Plowing. Plowing day, Künnipäev, is 14 April. Appropriately, parallel to Põllu. Word probably related to künnap (see Künnapuu), along with other hard-wood objects such as küna (trough, or coble [small, flat-bottomed boat], künnis (threshold, sill), etc. To plough, a spelling UK readers may be more familiar with, is kündma.
Kurekatla (Kurekatel)
Lit. Crane’s boiler/kettle, former name of suureõiene kellukas (big-blossomed little bell), Campanula persicifolia, or peach-leaved bellflower. One of a meadow flower or grass group. See Kurereha.