Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *haubudąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_haubudą
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nounneutera-stemheadFrom 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.