Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/golva

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]^[2]

head
(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

*agolvo (“kill, killed”)
*golvatъ, *golvačь (“big-head”)
*golvica (“head”) (diminutive)
*golvina (augmentative)
*golvišče (“head”) (augmentative)
*golvitъ (“main, capital”)
*golvьnъ (adj.)
- *golvьnikъ (“householder, leader, (dialectal) killer”)
*golvъ (“headed”)
*golvъka (“head of an instrument”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: голова (golova, “head, killed person”)
  - Old Ruthenian: голова (holova)
    - Belarusian: галава́ (halavá)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: го́лова (hólova)
    - Ukrainian: голова́ (holová)
  - Russian: голова́ (golová)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: глава (glava)
  - Bulgarian: глава́ (glavá)
  - Macedonian: гла́ва (gláva)
  - → Old East Slavic: глава (glava)
    - Old Ruthenian: глава (hlava)
      - Carpathian Rusyn: глава́ (hlavá)
      - Ukrainian: глава́ (hlavá)
    - Russian: глава́ (glavá)
- Serbo-Croatian: гла́ва, gláva
- Slovene: gláva (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: hlava, hłava (alternative writing)
  - Czech: hlava
- Old Polish: głowa
  - Polish: głowa
  - Silesian: gowa, głowa
  - → Old Ruthenian: кглова (glova), глова (hlova)
- Polabian: glåvă
- Old Slovak:
  - Pannonian Rusyn: глава (hlava)
  - Slovak: hlava
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: głowa
  - Slovincian: glôwa
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: hłowa
  - Lower Sorbian: głowa

References

^ 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’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “golva golvy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c head (NA 134, 140, 143; SA 24, 27, 30f., 33, 84, 172, 243; PR 135, 138; MP 20)”

[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^[1], 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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