Etymology

Tartu

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Today it means: The second-largest city in Estonia. Full definition →

Estonian Tart ← Proto-Finnic *tarvas
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  1. Proto-Finnic*tarvas
  2. Estoniantarvas
  3. EstonianTart
  4. English todayTartu

Borrowed from Estonian Tartu, from earlier Tarbatu, ultimately from tarvas (“aurochs”), qv.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.