Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golva

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 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. head
  2. (dialectal, North Slavic) murder, killed person

Inflection

Declension of *golvà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm c)
singular dual plural
nominative *golvà *gȏlvě *gȏlvy
genitive *golvý *golvù *gõlvъ
dative *golvě̀ *golvàma *golvàmъ
accusative *gȏlvǫ *gȏlvě *gȏlvy
instrumental *golvojǫ́ *golvàma *golvàmi
locative *gȏlvě *golvù *golvàsъ, *golvàxъ*
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

Descendants

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*golva”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 221
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “голова”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. ^ 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’”
  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)”
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