hlava
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech hlava, from Proto-Slavic *golva.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hlava f (related adjective hlavový)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
adjectives
nouns
Further reading edit
Old Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
- hłava (alternative writing)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golva.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hlava f
- (anatomy) head (part of the body)
- head; individual, person
- head (ability to reason)
- (law) head (person's life)
- (law) murder (intentional killing of a person)
- (law) murdered body
- (law) fine imposed in a trial for murder
- (figuratively) head (person leading something)
- head (upper part of anything)
- hilt of a sword
- (figuratively) front (front side of something)
- (astronomy) group of stars in a constellation designated by an animal name
- Coordinate term: ocas
Declension edit
Declension of hlava (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | hlava | hlavě | hlavy |
genitive | hlavy | hlavú | hlav |
dative | hlavě | hlavama | hlavám |
accusative | hlavu | hlavě | hlavy |
vocative | hlavo | hlavě | hlavy |
locative | hlavě | hlavú | hlavách |
instrumental | hlavú | hlavama | hlavami |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants edit
- Czech: hlava
References edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hlava”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golva.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hlava f (genitive singular hlavy, nominative plural hlavy, genitive plural hláv, declension pattern of žena)
Declension edit
Declension of hlava
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “hlava”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024