What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Category: Mining

  • Originally published on X on 12 February 2024. A havíř is a ‘coal miner’, or, in ‘I didn’t realise that was a specifically British word’ news, a ‘collier’. It’s actually a borrowing from the German Hauer, which is also how we get the English profession name, and surname, ‘hewer’. This house, at number 2, is…