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. 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’ (yup, that too), with similar cognates in most ‘Northern’ languages, Old Frisian, Old Norse, etc. 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.