Names
Reha (Reha)
Rake. Part of a harvest street-name group. Anagram of Rahe. See Vigla. The rake plays a mystical role in various Estonian creation stories (see Kalevipoja, Canto IV)...
Rehe (Rehi)
Drying-barn or large room in old farmhouse where grain is kiln-dried and threshed. The ambient damp and the methods used to keep it dry is said to have given Estonian Hansa-period bread its distinctive and much-appreciated flavor. Name of former farm. See Tare.
Rehe põik (Rehi)
Side road off to the W of Rehe turning NNW to Kadaka tee.
Rehelepa (Rehelepp)
Uncertain, perhaps an extended or alternative former farm name of another about 1 km further east (see Rehe). The word construction could indicate alder wood for burning in a drying barn.
Reidi (Reid)
Roadstead or roads (usu. pl.), where the term does not designate a road, but a sheltered area of sea outside a harbor where ships can lie at anchor in relative safety, similar to a bay or gulf, but deeper and with a narrower mouth open to the sea. Some sources give Eng.‘road’ as the length of chain holding the anchor. The term seems first to have meant a safe place to prepare ships, coming from MLG rēde, reiide, rēt, rīde, etc., or Old Dutch rede(?), derived from Proto-Germanic *raid- ‘ready’, with similar cognates in most ‘Northern’ languages, Old Frisian, Old Norse, etc., but also Finnish reitti (‘route’ < ‘sea route’). Runs, not surprisingly, along the southern shore of Tallinna Reid, easternmost of Tallinn’s bays. Confusingly, Tallinna laht, Tallinn Bay (see Lahe), consists in 4 bays (lahed) running west to east: Kakumäe or Tiskre, Kopli and Paljassaare bays, then Tallinna Reid. This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague.
Reimani V. (Villem Reiman, 1861-1917)
Sometimes spelled Reimanni. Clergyman, poet and co-founder of Tartu-based newspaper Postimees. Soviet occupation renaming (1957-1991) along with Kivisilla as Anveldi J.
