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Polish
Etymology
From głowa + -ina. First attested in 1688.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: gło‧wi‧na
Noun
głowina f
- (endearing) head, noggin (part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
- Synonyms: arbuz, bania, baniak, baśka, dynia, dyńka, głowa, główka, łeb, łepetyna, pała, (literary) skroń, makówka
Declension
References
- ^ Michał Bujnowski (1688) DROGA do DOMV (in Polish), page 43
Further reading
- głowina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “głowina”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “głowina”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “głowina”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 848
- głowina in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego