hovud

See also: hovud-

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Dialectal forms

hovud (Tinn, Hovin, Western Telemark, Åmli, Gjøvdal, Ulvik, silent d)
hòvúd (Setesdal)
huvud (Hedmark, Northern Østerdalen, Upper Valdres, Upper Hallingdal, Gransherad, Hjartdal, Budal, Singsås)
hugud (Hedmark, Oppland, Lower Hallingdal, Risør, Eastern Telemark, Meldal, Rennebu, Røros, Upper Gauldal, Tydal, Snåsa, Sørli, Nordli, Hattfjelldal, silent d)
hòve (Hornnes, Evje, Åmli, Vest-Agder, Rogaland, Hordaland, Sogn)
haud (Nordfjord, Sunnmøre, Romsdal, Nordmøre, Trøndelag, north, silent d except in Sunnmøre and Nordfjord)
hauv (Stangvik, Bjørnskinn)
haue (Agder, Sunnfjord, Romsdal, Nordmøre, Hyllestad, Solund, Southern Helgeland, Alta)
huu, hue (vik, Eidskog, Hedmark, Øysterdal, Hadeland, Eastern Telemark, Lower Telemark, Bardu, Målselv, Øverbygd)

From Old Norse hǫfuð, from Proto-Germanic *hafudą or *habudą, northern form of *haubudą, from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput- (“head”).

IPA^(key): /²hoˑvu/, /²hoˑvʉ/, [²hɞ̞ː.ʋʉ], [²hɞ̞ʋ.ʋʉ]
(Voss, Hardanger) IPA^(key): /²hoːvu/, [²hoː.ʋu]
(Western Telemark) IPA^(key): [²hɞ̞ː.ʋu]
Rhymes: -vu, -vʉ
Hyphenation: hò‧vud
Note: The -d is always silent, except in declensions where it directly follows the v, such as in å hovde, or dialectal dative hovdæ (Setesdal) and hovde (West Telemark).

hovud n (definite singular hovudet, indefinite plural hovud, definite plural hovuda)

Compound words beginning with the word may use the stem hovud, or the old genitive hovde-, in which case the otherwise silent /d/ is maintained.