glava
Serbo-Croatian
/ɡlǎːʋa/
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) head
- chapter (section of a book)
- head, mind; brains (a source of mental ability and intelligence)
- head, chief, chairman, chairperson (person who leads an organized group)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golva inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ.
Origin
Proto-Balto-Slavic
*galˀwā́ˀ
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- голова Russian
- *gelH- Proto-Indo-European
- głowa Polish
- *golva Proto-Slavic
- hlava Czech
- bezglav Serbo-Croatian
- glavolomka Serbo-Croatian
- lomiti Serbo-Croatian
- naglavak Serbo-Croatian
- pun Serbo-Croatian
- punoglavac Serbo-Croatian
- zaglaviti Serbo-Croatian
- глава Serbo-Croatian
- galva Latvian
- глава Bulgarian
- глава Macedonian
- голова Ukrainian
- hlava Slovak
- glava Slovene
- глава Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- galva Lithuanian
- голова Old East Slavic
- głowa Lower Sorbian
- *galˀwā́ˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- hłowa Upper Sorbian
- głowa Kashubian
- gowa Silesian
- golva Latgalian
- galwo Old Prussian