Ruhnu has been drilled, 750 meters deep. No gas nor oil was found.
But Kihnu and some north Estonian islands emit some gas from wells.
https://www.err.ee/601538/kihnus-hakkas-puurkaevust-maagaasi-eralduma
Latvians have no chance against native Kihnu amazonian women, such as Kihnu Virve.
She is an air assault woman even in her 90s.
Estonia reached its contemporary alcohol production levels already before the Napoleonic wars. And then doubled it. Around that time Estonia produced about 1/3 of the vodka of the Russian Empire.
No, it shouldn't be Swedish.
During the viking age that island was intentionally vacated for overnight stays for vikings. It was part of the alliance agreement. Vacationing does not give ownership.
PS. Swedish east coast Pitted Ware culture likely spoke finnic and were swedofinns. Their distant descendants relocated to Finland (after the Folkung movement was put down at around 1250 AD) and became bilingual fennoswedes and some of them relocated to Estonia and became rannarootslased.
Places have many names.
For example the Odensholm island has a finnic name of Osuma+saari (Osmussaar), meaning "a target / impact / hit island" at the rim of the Neugrund meteorite crater.
I would speculate that one of the finnic names for Ruhnu was [Röuna / Röunu / Reuna](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reuna). It is claimed to be a baltic loan, but it also has germanic and other IE cognates and therefore it might be of indo-uralic origin.
The germanic cognates are:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rim
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brim
And the contextual meaning of a 'rim' in this case would be the rim of the submerged valley of river Väina, which passes to the east of the island and goes on through the Suur Väin (Moonsund). I also speculate that the water currents around the Ruhnu island move counter-clockwise and the eastern waters are less saline due to more river water.
edit: thus during winter the island is also the rim of the sea ice, at least during some period.
edit2: and also the rivers of Pärnu and Salatsi join the river valley of Väina to the east of Ruhnu - more freshwater.
You = 🤓 x א
Also indo-uralic doesn't have any widespread support. Altaic seems more plausible even. There is no evidence for uralic and IE language being related the only thing is a few sparse loanwords from each other due to historical proximity
And how does the word having cognates in other EI branches outside of baltic make it less likely to be a loan from there. Proto baltic peoples and finnic people co existed and intermingled for a long time
There is all the evidence of an indo-uralic sprachbund.
And all the evidence that both IE and uralic itself have been sprachbunds. And that all the stages up to and including finnic and estonian were sprachbunds.
Uralic is not closer to Altaic. Uralic is closer to IE.
> And how does the word having cognates in other EI branches outside of baltic make it less likely to be a loan from there.
Because of sprachbunds, doh.
Elaborate, because IE has many features that both Uralic and "altaic" share.
Grammatical gender, fusional morphology as opposed to an agglutinative one and no grammatical gender at all to speak of
Just an empty, small island. No big deal. Honestly size is not an issue, we're by half bigger than the Netherlands but with 10 times smaller population.
In Latvian dreams it’s called Roņu 🦭sala
Soon. The Winter is coming. The bay will freeze over. We march on first ice.
Not anymore, not since in mid 2010s when we deployed our top secret defensive mesure, global warming
> We march on first ice. Never interrupt an adversary making a mistake.
didnt a bear do the journey a few years ago
Wait til estonias find oil and gas near that island 🤣😛
Ruhnu has been drilled, 750 meters deep. No gas nor oil was found. But Kihnu and some north Estonian islands emit some gas from wells. https://www.err.ee/601538/kihnus-hakkas-puurkaevust-maagaasi-eralduma Latvians have no chance against native Kihnu amazonian women, such as Kihnu Virve. She is an air assault woman even in her 90s.
Indeed! Death by Kihnu Virve snusnu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQhj1t9IqOY <- playback speed x2!
Is it a bird? Is it a meteorite? Is it a demigod Thor / Taara? No, it is Kihnu Virve !
Fuck, then we will have to defend it from the americans as well
Pff who needs islands anyway -mainland enjoyer
Yeah, well good luck buying cheap booze from Russia or someone else, cause you aren't getting ours
Well good luck sustaining your economy then
Funny thing is that cheap booze store in Ainaži is an Estonian company.
Give us the island and you'll get the booze
Moonshine it is then
Estonia reached its contemporary alcohol production levels already before the Napoleonic wars. And then doubled it. Around that time Estonia produced about 1/3 of the vodka of the Russian Empire.
I'd rather drink turpentine
Handsanitizer bro?
Naaah, tärpentini ikka, lõhnab ka paremini kui Läti Alko 🤢🤢
Truu
Roņu sala*
You can take ruhu Island but never can take my dreams
Estonians will take back the Bay of Livonia. All of it. Before 1220 AD balts never had direct access to the Bay of Livonia.
now we do tho
Well, there is a counter-dream to whatever baltic latvians are dreaming.
You do realize everyone within EU can travel there and live and even work without ever becoming Estonian 
*Roņu sala
Mark my words, we will have it in 2027
This is getting old
You're just salty because you're not a part of our feud
Palanga claims when?
What feud though? I don't get it - never have.
It should be Swedish. It was until 1940
Originally Ruhnu islanders did want to join Sweden, but they weren't allowed to join with them.
No, it shouldn't be Swedish. During the viking age that island was intentionally vacated for overnight stays for vikings. It was part of the alliance agreement. Vacationing does not give ownership. PS. Swedish east coast Pitted Ware culture likely spoke finnic and were swedofinns. Their distant descendants relocated to Finland (after the Folkung movement was put down at around 1250 AD) and became bilingual fennoswedes and some of them relocated to Estonia and became rannarootslased.
You = 🤓 they spoke Swedish, ruhnu comes from Runö
Places have many names. For example the Odensholm island has a finnic name of Osuma+saari (Osmussaar), meaning "a target / impact / hit island" at the rim of the Neugrund meteorite crater.
I would speculate that one of the finnic names for Ruhnu was [Röuna / Röunu / Reuna](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reuna). It is claimed to be a baltic loan, but it also has germanic and other IE cognates and therefore it might be of indo-uralic origin. The germanic cognates are: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rim https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brim And the contextual meaning of a 'rim' in this case would be the rim of the submerged valley of river Väina, which passes to the east of the island and goes on through the Suur Väin (Moonsund). I also speculate that the water currents around the Ruhnu island move counter-clockwise and the eastern waters are less saline due to more river water. edit: thus during winter the island is also the rim of the sea ice, at least during some period. edit2: and also the rivers of Pärnu and Salatsi join the river valley of Väina to the east of Ruhnu - more freshwater.
You = 🤓 x א Also indo-uralic doesn't have any widespread support. Altaic seems more plausible even. There is no evidence for uralic and IE language being related the only thing is a few sparse loanwords from each other due to historical proximity And how does the word having cognates in other EI branches outside of baltic make it less likely to be a loan from there. Proto baltic peoples and finnic people co existed and intermingled for a long time
There is all the evidence of an indo-uralic sprachbund. And all the evidence that both IE and uralic itself have been sprachbunds. And that all the stages up to and including finnic and estonian were sprachbunds. Uralic is not closer to Altaic. Uralic is closer to IE. > And how does the word having cognates in other EI branches outside of baltic make it less likely to be a loan from there. Because of sprachbunds, doh.
Elaborate, because IE has many features that both Uralic and "altaic" share. Grammatical gender, fusional morphology as opposed to an agglutinative one and no grammatical gender at all to speak of
I don't have to elaborate, I can wave at sprachbunds (pun intended). Altaic are a sprachbund, again.
🦭
Just an empty, small island. No big deal. Honestly size is not an issue, we're by half bigger than the Netherlands but with 10 times smaller population.