Paadi (Paat)
Boat. You guessed it, right next to Laeva down by the docks. This street is part of the E67 from Helsinki to Prague. Home to the beautiful wood-built Püha Siimeoni ja naisprohvet Hanna kirik (St. Simeon’s and St. Anne’s Cathedral Church) about whose lives marvellous tales are told! (see Ahtri).
Parda (Parras)
Often given as a synonym of Poordi, this might be due to semantic shift over time. In this case, it would indicate the outer side or ‘board’ of a boat or ship from keel up (and, nowadays, planes etc., too, think ‘boarding-pass’) as in pakpoord (larboard, now port) and tüürpoord (starboard) but used more in expressions such as üle parda kukkuma (to fall overboard), üle parda heitma (to toss overboard, both literally and figuratively). However, given its etymological origin via Proto-German *barđaz from Old Icelandic barð, both meaning ‘edge’ or ‘rim’, some dictionaries translate the word by ‘gunwale’ (from 15th-C Eng, gonne walle) the (thickened?) ridge/‘wall’ (from OE wale, or ship’s side-timber) supporting the ship’s guns. While gunwale is often translated as reeling (calqued on Eng. railing) or reelingulatt, the general consensus seems to be the lath of wood fitted onto the upper edge of the board for its multiple functional purposes.
Poordi (Poord)
Board, side of a ship, as in starboard (tüürpoord, steering, helm or rudder side) and larboard (pakpoord, prob. from German Backbord), quite possibly influenced by packen in the sense of ‘to stow’ (verstauen), as suggested for English with OE bæcbord, lit. ‘back board’ (as sitting facing the steering side, starboard, Steuerbord would leave this to your back), evolving into ladde-borde (‘loading side’?) before becoming ‘larboard’ in the 16th C. Given the confusion, the British Admiralty changed it to ‘port’ in 1844. Semordnilap, for clients of Canadian meds, of ‘I droop’. See also Parda.