connection between the two resulting in #Dutch #polder (see #Poldri) the word’s immediate etymology is from #MiddleDutch #polre > pol (drained or diked land) with a ‘d’ thrown in for fun where polre itself was originally a dike or dam and these of course could first have been made from tree
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probably just ‘lowland’, and not an embarassing diplomatic error. See also #Lüüsi and #Poldri.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Water #Vesi
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#Belgian placename #Sluizen it referred to. In time, the *exitum aquarum* shifted to *exclusa aqua* (water separated or isolated [by barrage]) and thence to #OldFrench #escluse. Given its naming in 2008 along with #Madalmaa and #Poldri), its #Dutch connection refers to its location in an area
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Poldri.

Building, the only one apparently, in Poldri, Tallinn.

View along Poldri, Tallinn, in the direction of Reidi tee, aka Via Baltica.

Front door of old building, also restaurant, in Poldri, Tallinn.

#Poldri (Polder)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
Polder. Although essentially a Dutch construct, Estonia has four polders: Aardla, Audru, Räpina and Tarvastu. This one, concrete, named after proximity to Tuukri’s predecessor.