Snow-covered corner of a farmyard with outbuilding and the first marker stone

the corner of the plot

The name comes from the ground: tonttu is built on tontti, the house plot. The spirit belongs to the surveyed piece of land, not to the family on it.

Basis: The derivation of the word · AI-generated

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