golva

See also: Golva

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷol- (“spike, tip, peak”) (whence also Latgalian gols (“end, tip”)) with an extra suffix *-wā. Cognates include Latvian galva, Lithuanian galvà, Old Prussian gallū (from *galvū, from *galva), galwo (“head of boot”), Sudovian kałfa (from *galva), Proto-Slavic *golva (Old Church Slavonic глава (glava), Russian голова́ (golová), Ukrainian голова́ (holová), Belarusian галава́ (halavá), dialectal голаў (hólaŭ), Bulgarian глава́ (glavá), Czech hlava, Polish głowa), Hittite [script needed] (ḫalanta) (where ḫ comes from a guttural), perhaps Old Armenian գլուխ (glux).

Noun

golva f

  1. head

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

golva n

  1. definite plural of golv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

golva n

  1. definite plural of golv
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