What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 26 May 2022.

Spojovací was created in 1933.

The literal translation would be ‘connecting’, although Google Translate seriously wants me to consider ‘syndetic’.

Which is awesome.

Spojovací was created by literally joining two other roads: Lipanská (there is another Lipanská in Žižkov, of course) and Husova.

Not That Lipanská was, until 1900, called K Hrdlořezům, because it led to Hrdlořezy (which is the district that the eastern side of the road is located in).

Spojovací does what is says on the tin, linking roads that lead out of Prague to Brandýs nad Labem, Poděbrady and Český Brod (I think).

Vocabulary for people who are more technically minded than I am (i.e. everyone): spojovací materiál would be fasteners, such as screws (a spojovací šroub is an assembling bolt); a spojovací zákop is a communication trench, and a spojovací tyč is a connecting rod.

This officially means I’ve now been all the way down Koněvova and back (not a metaphor). So, tomorrow, it’s time to head deeper into the north of Prague 3.