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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golvačь. By surface analysis, głowa + -acz.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ʂ
- Syllabification: gło‧wacz
Noun
głowacz m animal
- any of various freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus
Declension
Noun
głowacz m pers
- (obsolete) wise man (a man who is wise)
- (obsolete) head (a leader or chief)
Declension
Noun
głowacz m inan
- (colloquial) cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bławatek
- (Central Greater Poland, roofing) thatch
- Synonyms: jeżak, poszycie
- (Przemyśl) hemp with a pistillate flower
Declension
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