kopje

kumpare puhekieltä A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
1883, (w), (w), New York: H.M. Caldwell & Co., 2nd edition, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 9,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007586284

In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave.

We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.

Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; … and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.

On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.