Talk:Prospekt (street)

Merger
See discussion here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Moved dubious section from article
"In the 18th-19th century emigrants from the Russian Empire apparently brought this word to the United States. There the word "prospekt" mixed with its English counterpart "avenue" resulting in Prospect Avenue, a tautological combination from the Russian point of view.
 * Prospect Avenue is a major north/south main street in Kansas City, Missouri.
 * Prospect Avenue in the Bronx is an avenue and a New York City Subway station there.
 * Meanwhile, in Brooklyn in addition to the local Prospect Avenue and the subway station of the same name there is also a Prospect Park and Prospect Park subway station — a toponym also known in Davenport and Des Moines in Iowa, in Massachusetts, Minnesota and some other states where its origin needs separate explanation."

This is a strange claim. "Prospect" is a perfectly good English word which is widely used in geographical names. There are many things called "Prospect X" around the English world. If there was a road in the US called "Washing Prospekt", then it might be reasonable to guess that this is some sort of adoption of the Russian word, but to claim that any "Prospect Avenue" etc is adopted from the Russian, is quite strange. The more likely derivation is simply from the ordinary English usage of "Prospect". The Brooklyn example in particular is clearly named after the park. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof but there is none here. --62.189.73.197 (talk) 08:11, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Italicize?
Should the generic term (i.e. when used as a general term, and not in a proper noun) be italicized per MOS:FOREIGNITALIC? Eng dictionaries don't seem to have the word 104.232.119.107 (talk) 10:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)