From <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *<span class="searchmatch">káput</span> (“head”), perhaps from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *kap- (“seize, hold”), possibly of substrate origin. *<span class="searchmatch">kaput</span> n head *-kaputis...
*<span class="searchmatch">káput</span> ~ *kap-wét-s n head <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Germanic: *hafudą ~ *haubeþaz (“head”) (metathesized < *habweþaz) (see there for further descendants) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Italic</span>: *kaput...
From *<span class="searchmatch">kaput</span> + *-is. *-kaputis -headed Latin: -ceps, -cipes De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caput”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other <span class="searchmatch">Italic</span> Languages...