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.