What's in a Prague street name

Nad strouhou was named in 1926.

A ‘strouha’ is an artificial or natural flow of water. It can be used to drain water, or to power a mill. I’m going to go with ‘gully’ as a reasonable English translation.

I’m also going to assume it comes from the same Old Slavic source as Struga in North Macedonia. Here’s a photo from a rather fraught day in August 2008 when I was trying to go from Ohrid to Albania (for the first time) from there. I succeeded.

Back in Prague, the ‘strouha’ that this street is above is Kunratický potok, as discussed on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/11/23/prague-4-day-238-za-mlynem/.