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Ahtri (Ahter)
1) Stern, poop; 2) By extension (no pun intended): buttocks, (often) ladies’, (usually) generous. Term borrowed from Low Saxon and Swedish seafarers, and related to ‘aft’ and ‘after’, as well as ‘off’ and ‘ebb’. Known until 1958 as Simeoni, Siimeoni, Siimoni or Simuna after its Saints Simon and Anna orthodox church (built 1752-1871), now known as Püha Siimeoni ja naisprohvet Hanna kirik (Saint Simeon’s and Prophetess Anna’s church (see Paadi). Part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague, see also Reidi.
Halsi (Halss)
Tack, gybe, as in sailboat directions.
Jõe (Jõgi)
River, the river in question being the Härjapea which went through the standard slippery slope of many an urban river, with names to-ing and fro-ing between river and canal according to mindset of the day: Canalstraße (1881, first record), Härjapea-jõe tn, Alam-Jõe tn (lower river), Bachstraße (stream), Kanalstraße, Канальная ул (canal). In the mid-thirties, mains were laid, the water was diverted, and the bed filled in. The Soviet occupation saw a major change, switching (1974-1990), along with Pronksi and Liivalaia (1944-1972), to Kingissepa V.. Present name dates to 1990. To drink in Estonian is jooma to which the word is clearly related, both suggested from a common FU root, *juga, which may be related to a Turkic *jug- for ‘to swallow’ or Proto-Mongolic *uxu-, Mod. Mong. уух (uux), ‘to drink’.
Kai (Kai)
Quay, wharf. Yup, in the docks.
