What's in a Prague street name

Na lysině was built in 1931.

‘Lysina’ isn’t in common use as a word in modern Czech, but it exists in present-day Slovak, where it’s a bald spot. In Czech, that would be a ‘pleš’.

‘Łysina’, in Polish, means the same thing, but can also be used colloquially to denote an area devoid of vegetation.

It seems that the area round here was known as ‘Lysina’ for this reason, although that’s quite amusing to me, because, when I lived round there (and when I went back to take the street sign photo), it was very green indeed.

Na lysině is home to dorms used by the Czech Technical University (ČVUT), as well as the Čtyřlístek publishing house.