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Hi Lene: I'm a student only of Estonian, not having learnt it at my mother's knee. However, when I clicked on the link you provided, I found a page in what looked like Setu dialect. Then I Googled for <setu estonia>. The first result said, "South-East Estonia at the coasts of lake Pihkva there live a special people – the Setus. The land of Setus (in Estonian Setumaa and in Setu called Setomaa)...Note that the link you provided goes to a page headed, "Seto kuningriik". My guess is that this means "Setu kingdom".
While I was confirming the guess about "kuningriik" in the Saagpakk dictionary, I looked up "kott". There are two such words but the one with the "-a" ending in the possessive, the one that would give a "-al" ending, means "oversize footwear, clog, footwear of cloth (or rags), slipper, worn-out shoe". The "-al" ending means "on the" or "on a" (footwear as described by Saagpakk).
Sounds like you had a male ancestor who could take a joke at the expense of his footwear.
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