heafod

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In #10, *kap-ut gives Latin 'caput' and Germanic *hauβuð German 'Haupt, Dutch 'hoofd', OE 'heafod' Modern English 'head'.

PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
I really like the O.E. words for skull: heafod-bolla.

Archive 2007-12-01 News from Mad Plato 2007
I really like the O.E. words for skull: heafod-bolla.

WORDS WORDS WORDS News from Mad Plato 2007
⁊ him sone from [fleoþ] · þeo he ær freome dude · nulleþ heo mid honden · his heafod riht wen [den] · heom þuncheþ þ̵ hore honden · swuþe beoþ ifuled ·

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
Late Etruscan *χafθ), lent also at some point to Germanic hence Old English heafod).

A thought on the real name for the land of the Minoans 2009
Late Etruscan *χafθ), lent also at some point to Germanic hence Old English heafod).

Archive 2009-09-01 2009