Names
Läänekaare (Läänekaar)
West, western quarter on the horizon. See also Kirde.
Läänemere (Läänemeri)
The Baltic Sea. Lit. Western Sea. Interestingly, the Finns call it Itämeri or East Sea, but they based the name on the Östersjön of Swedish (their rulers until 1809) for whom it is the East Sea.
Läänemuuli (Läänemuul)
We have doubts… what used to be the plain old western mole or jetty itself (Läänemuul), adding the gentive ‑‘i’ (in 2023?) seems to turn it into a placename or thoroughfare, but none seen on any map (other than xgis.maaamet.ee)...
Laaniku (Laanik)
Mountain fern moss, Hylocomium splendens. See also Palusambla.
Laari J.
(Joosep Laar, 1905-1943)
One of the 11 Estonians ever to receive a Gold star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union, an honor he shared with Gagarini J., Leonid Brezhnev (4-times prize-winner!) and Trotsky’s ice-axe assassin. Soviet occupation renaming (1950-1991) of Villardi.
Läätspuu (Läätspuu)
Caragana, an evergreen flowering plant from eastern Europe and Asia. Renaming of the south, eastern or ‘bottom right’ end of Lõhmuse põik in 2016. Tree/shrub group, see Pukspuu and Näsiniine.
