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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golva
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH-.
Noun
*golvà f[1][2]
- head
- (dialectal, West and East Slavic) murder, killed person
Inflection
Declension of *golvà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *golvà | *gȏlvě | *gȏlvy |
| Accusative | *gȏlvǫ | *gȏlvě | *gȏlvy |
| Genitive | *golvý | *golvù | *gõlvъ |
| Locative | *gȏlvě | *golvù | *golvàsъ, *golvàxъ* |
| Dative | *golvě̀ | *golvàma | *golvàmъ |
| Instrumental | *golvojǫ́ | *golvàma | *golvàmi |
| Vocative | *golvo | *gȏlvě | *gȏlvy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
Derived terms
- *golvьnъ (adj.)
- *golvьnikъ (“householder, leader, (dialectal) killer”)
- *golvica (“head”) (diminutive)
- *golvišče (“head”) (augmentative)
- *golvatъ, *golvačь (“big-head”)
- *golvitъ (“main, capital”)
- *golvъka (“head of an instrument”)
- *golvina (augmentative)
- *agolvo (“kill, killed”)
- *golvъ (“headed”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: голова (golova, “head, killed person”)
- Belarusian: галава́ (halavá)
- Russian: голова́ (golová)
- Rusyn: го́лова (hólova)
- Ukrainian: голова́ (holová)
- Old East Slavic: голова (golova, “head, killed person”)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: глава (glava)
- → Old East Slavic: глава (glava) (see there for further descendants)
- Bulgarian: глава́ (glavá)
- Macedonian: гла́ва (gláva)
- Serbo-Croatian: гла́ва, gláva
- Slovene: gláva (tonal orthography)
- Old Church Slavonic: глава (glava)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlava
- Czech: hlava
- Bohemian (Chod dialect): hlava
- Moravian (Mistřice): hu̯ava
- Czech: hlava
- Kashubian: głowa
- Polabian: glåvă
- Polish: głowa
- Silesian: gowa
- Slovak: hlava
- Slovincian: glʉ̀ɵ̯vă
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: hłowa
- Lower Sorbian: głowa
- Old Czech: hlava
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 221
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “голова”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golvà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 176: “f. ā (c) ‘head’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “golva golvy”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c head (NA 134, 140, 143; SA 24, 27, 30f., 33, 84, 172, 243; PR 135, 138; MP 20)”