głowacz

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Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golvačь. By surface analysis, głowa +‎ -acz.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ʂ
  • Syllabification: gło‧wacz

Noun

głowacz m animal

  1. any of various freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus

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Noun

głowacz m pers

  1. (obsolete) wise man (a man who is wise)
  2. (obsolete) head (a leader or chief)

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Noun

głowacz m inan

  1. (colloquial) cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bławatek
  2. (Central Greater Poland, roofing) thatch
    Synonyms: jeżak, poszycie
  3. (Przemyśl) hemp with a pistillate flower

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Further reading

  • głowacz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • głowacz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “głowacze”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
  • Aleksander Saloni (1908) “głowacze”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334