What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 29 May 2022.

V Okruží was built in 1931.

Does anybody like bad translations? Because the internet is giving me ‘in a ruff’. Which, if you replace the ‘r’ with an ‘h’, describes me as I try to make sense of this.

Thankfully, my Lingea dictionary gives me the much more helpful ‘halo’.

That said, a halo is typically a svatozář, a gloriola, or an aureola (if you’re seeing it around a saint’s head).

And it’s a světelný kruh, or, yes, a halo if it’s around the sun.

ANYWAY. Continuing the tradition of streets being named after their shapes (which started with https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-4-na-vrcholu/), this particular street is in the shape of an arc. Hence the name.

Realising all these streets are named after their shapes is making me understand a little better why I got so lost walking around here looking for street signs to take pictures of.