What's in a Prague street name

V Zeleni was built in 1935. It translates as ‘in green’, ‘in green vegetation’ / ‘in greenery’ / ‘in verdure’, etc.

As if that name needed any explanation, V Zeleni leads into https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-29-v-zahradkach/, ‘In the gardens’.

Which has https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/20/prague-3-day-48-pod-lipami/ (under the lindens) at its northernmost point.

And ‘flowery’ a little bit further down: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/20/prague-3-day-52-kvetinkova/.

You get it.

Vocab fun: the verb zelenit se means ‘to turn green’. Komu se nelení, tomu se zelení translates roughly as ‘someone who is not lazy will turn green’, which is something like ‘no pain, no gain’.

And malí zelení mužíčci are little green men, presumably also not lazy.