Loode (Loe)

North-west, northwesterly (also high tide, neap tide or, plural, looded, tide, ebb and flow). Also noordvest or nordvest among sailors. Compass point with a twist! Loode is possibly derived from Proto-Finnic *loodeh giving Finnish luode, northwest (itself possibly related to Finnish luoja, creator, or to a hypothetical verb such as *luotaa, to descend), Karelian luuveh for west or southwest, Livonian lūod and Ludian luodeh for vanilla west, and back to Veps and Votic with lode / lodeh and loo / looto / looõ for northwest or west, or just as possibly derived from MLG lēden, to lead, and cognate with modern English lode. During the Middle Ages, the ‘Viking compass’ was rotated some 45° to 60° clockwise from the true, geographical compass, with norðr referring to northeast, not north, and northwest thus pointing north to the Lodestar (aka Polaris or North Star), which might explain why Estonian has actual, i.e. non-compound, names for the intercardinal directions (NE, SE, etc.) which, for them, were cardinal, see Edela. Formerly (1885-1923) Nürnbergi. See also Vesikaare.