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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.
Lembitu (Lembit[u])
Lembit of Lehola: Estonian leader in fight against German Brethren of the Sword, died during Battle of St. Matthew’s Day, September, 1217. Poem written by Kreutzwald. The modern man’s name is without the ‘u’ in the nominative.
Lauteri A.
(Ants Lauter, 1894-1973)
Actor, “People’s Artist of the USSR”, who lived at No.8 in this street from 1960 till his death, star of famous Estonian pic: Mehed ei nuta (Men don’t cry). Part translator of Stanislavsky, and winner, lucky lad, of a Stalin Prize (1952) and Order of Lenin (1956). Lauter also means boat slip or landing stage for fishing boats (see Valguta), and its genitive is lautri, so it seems that the genitive of personal names tend to try to retain as much of the nominative as possible, perhaps to de-signify the root word (see, for example, Süda P.).
