*haubudą

Runic: ᚺᚨᚢᛒᚢᛞᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈxɑu̯.βu.ðɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

head

Etymology

From earlier *hafud, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Cognate with Latin caput.

The original form in Germanic was *habudą, which has been retained in most North Germanic dialects, whereas some North Germanic dialects along with the West Germanic languages and Gothic have forms that go back to *haubudą or *haubidą. The diphthong may be due to metathesis, if one reconstructs the original paradigm nominative *hafuþ ~ genitive *habweþaz.

The same root but with an alternate ending also appears in Germanic: *habulô (e.g. Old English hafola (‘head’)). The presence of initial *-a- in both *habudą and *habulô remains unexplained.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	haubudą	haubudō
Acc.	haubudą	haubudō
Gen.	haubudas, haubudis	haubudǫ̂
Dat.	haubudai	haubudamaz
Inst.	haubudō	haubudamiz
Voc.	haubudą	haubudō

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Descendants

*haubud (Proto-West Germanic)
- hēafod (Old English)
  - heed (Middle English)
    - heid (Scots)
    - heade, haade, hade (Yola)
*haubud (Proto-West Germanic)
- hēafod (Old English)
  - heed (Middle English)
    - head, heed, hed, 'ead, heead (English)
      - ヘッド (heddo) (Japanese)
*haubud (Proto-West Germanic)
- hēafod (Old English)
  - heed (Middle English)
    - head, heed, hed, 'ead, heead (English)
      - ede (Sranan Tongo)
        
        ede (Aukan)
        
        hédi (Saramaccan)
*haubud (Proto-West Germanic)
- hāved, hāud, hāfd, hād (Old Frisian)
  - hood, Haur (North Frisian)
  - Haud (Saterland Frisian)
  - haad (West Frisian)
haufuð (Old Norse)
- haufuð (Icelandic)
- hauv, haue, haud (Norwegian Nynorsk)
hoef (Crimean Gothic)
*haubid (Proto-West Germanic)
𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸 (haubiþ) (Gothic)
*hafud (Old English)
hǫfuð (Old Norse)
- ovuð (Elfdalian)
- Howth (English)
- høvd, høvur (Faroese)
- höfuð (Icelandic)
- huvu (Jamtish)
- heved (Norn)
hǫfuð (Old Norse)
- hovud, huvud, hugud, hue, haud (Norwegian)
  - hue (Norwegian Bokmål)
hǫfuð (Old Norse)
- hofuþ, houæth, huwæth, howæth (Old Danish)
  - huweð (Scanian)
hǫfuð (Old Norse)
- hafuþ (Old Gutnish)
  - häud, håvud (Gutnish)
hǫfuð (Old Norse)
- hovuþ, huwuþ, hoffuidh, hwffuit (Old Swedish)
  - huvud (Swedish)

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