What's in a Prague street name

V podhájí was built in 1911.

A ‘háj’ – the plural of which is Háje, as in the last stop on the red metro line – is a ‘grove’, or a dense collection of trees which isn’t big enough to qualify as a forest.

I guess a reasonable translation of ‘podhájí’ would be ‘undergrowth’. Once upon a time, it was quite forested (groved?) round here, hence Podhájí becoming a local place name.

There are at least ten places across the country called Podhájí too, and a town of about 1,150 people called Podhájska in the Nitra region of Slovakia.