стрімголов

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Ukrainian

Etymology

From an unattested form *стромиголов(у), related to строми́ти (stromýty, “to insert, stick”) and голова́ (holová, “head”).[1] Possibly ultimately from Old Church Slavonic стрьмоглавь (strĭmoglavĭ, “head down, headfirst, headlong”),[2] whence Russian стремгла́в (stremgláv).[3] Compare also Belarusian стрымгало́ў (strymhalóŭ), Czech střemhlav.

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Adverb

стрімголо́в • (strimholóv)

  1. headfirst, headlong (precipitately, rashly)
  2. headfirst, headlong (with the head first or down)
    Synonym: вниз голово́ю (vnyz holovóju)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2006), “стрімголов”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 5 (Р – Т), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 445
  2. ^ “стрьмоглавь”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2024
  3. ^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стремглав”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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