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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golvačь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Literally "headed". From *golva (“head”) + *-ačь
Noun
*golvačь m
- big-headed man/animal
- intelligent man (Polish)
- stubborn man (South and West Slavic)
Inflection
Declension of *golvačь (soft o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *golvačь | *golvača | *golvači |
Accusative | *golvačь | *golvača | *golvačę̇ |
Genitive | *golvača | *golvaču | *golvačь |
Locative | *golvači | *golvaču | *golvačixъ |
Dative | *golvaču | *golvačema | *golvačemъ |
Instrumental | *golvačьmь, *golvačemь* | *golvačema | *golvači |
Vocative | *golvaču | *golvača | *golvači |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Related terms
- *golvatъ (“big-headed; intelligent (East Slavic); stubborn (West Slavic)”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: галава́ч (halaváč)
- Russian: голова́ч (golováč)
- Ukrainian: голова́ч (holováč)
- South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гла̀ва̄ч
- Latin: glavač (“stubborn”, adj)
- Slovene: glaváč
- Serbo-Croatian:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: hlaváč
- Polish: głowacz
- Slovak: hlaváč, hláč
- Slovincian: glù̶o̶̯vȯč, głowacz
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: hłowač
References
- Chernykh, P. (1993), “голова”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 200
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golvačь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 7