Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golva

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH-.

Noun

*golvà f[1][2]

head
(dialectal, North Slavic) murder, killed person

Inflection

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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”)
  - Old Ruthenian: голова (holova)
    - Belarusian: галава́ (halavá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: го́лова (hólova)
    - Ukrainian: голова́ (holová)
  - Russian: голова́ (golová)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: глава (glava)
  - Bulgarian: глава́ (glavá)
  - Macedonian: гла́ва (gláva)
  - → Old East Slavic: глава (glava)
    - Old Ruthenian: глава (hlava)
      - Carpathian Rusyn: глава́ (hlavá)
      - Ukrainian: глава́ (hlavá)
    - Russian: глава́ (glavá)
- Serbo-Croatian: гла́ва, gláva
- Slovene: gláva (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: głowa
- Old Czech: hlava, hłava
  - Czech: hlava
- Old Polish: głowa
  - Masurian: głowa
  - Polish: głowa
  - Silesian: gowa, głowa
  - → Old Ruthenian: кглова (glova), глова (hlova)
- Polabian: glåvă
- Old Slovak:
  - Pannonian Rusyn: глава (hlava)
  - Slovak: hlava
- Slovincian: glʉ̀ɵ̯vă
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: hłowa
  - Lower Sorbian: głowa

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golvà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, 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)”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*golvà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 176: “f. ā (c) ‘head’”

[2] 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)”