golva
See also: Golva
Latgalian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷol- (“spike, tip, peak”) (whence also Latgalian gols (“end, tip”)) with an extra suffix *-wā.Cognates include Latvian galva, Lithuanian galvà, Old Prussian gallū (from *galvū, from *galva), galwo (“head of boot”), Sudovian kałfa (from *galva), Proto-Slavic *golva (Old Church Slavonic глава (glava), Russian голова́ (golová), Ukrainian голова́ (holová), Belarusian галава́ (halavá), dialectal голаў (hólaŭ), Bulgarian глава́ (glavá), Czech hlava, Polish głowa), Hittite [script needed] (ḫalanta) (where ḫ comes from a guttural), perhaps Old Armenian գլուխ (glux).
Noun
golva f
- head
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- golvene
Noun
golva n
- definite plural of golv
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
golva n
- definite plural of golv