head
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English efd, had, hafd, heafd, hed, heed, hefet, heid, het, hevd, heved, hevid, hiede, hæfd, hæfedd, from Old English hēafod (“head; top; leader; origin”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), from *kap- (“head; bowl, cup”).
The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-; the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots heid (“head”), Yola haade, hade, heade (“head”), North Frisian Haur, hood (“head”), Saterland Frisian Haud, Hööft (“head”), West Frisian haad (“head”), Alemannic German Haupt (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt, Häupt (“head”), Vilamovian hiöet, hiöt, huöt, huø̄t (“head”), Yiddish הויפּט (hoypt, “head”), Danish hode, hoved (“head”), Elfdalian ovuð (“head”), Faroese høvd, høvur (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Jamtish huvu (“head”), Norwegian Bokmål hode, hue (“head”), Norwegian Nynorsk haud, hauv, hove, hovu, hovud, hue, huggu, hugu, hugud, huvu, huvud (“head”), Scanian huweð (“head”), Swedish hufvud, hufwud, huve, huvud, hövve (“head”), Crimean Gothic hoef (“head”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌳 (haubid), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸 (haubiþ, “head”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic cuach (“bowl; dome (of head)”), Welsh cawg (“basin, bowl, vessel”), Latin capud, capus, caput (“head”), Greek κεφάλι (kefáli), κεφαλή (kefalí, “head”), Central Kurdish کاپۆڵ (kapoll, “skull”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull; bowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: 'ead
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
pronunciation-spelling
form: heead
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Yorkshire
form: hed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: heads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: headed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: headed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: 'ead
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
pronunciation-spelling
form: heead
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Yorkshire
form: hed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To be in command of. (See also head up.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Who heads the board of trustees?
to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
gloss: To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A group of clowns headed the procession.
The most important items headed the list.
When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
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gloss: To strike with the head
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to head the ball
gloss: To move in a specified direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We are going to head up North for our holiday.
We will head off tomorrow.
Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago.
Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.
I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own, set up my own business.
Where does the train head to?
To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
gloss: To remove the head from (a fish).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: behead, dehead
The salmon are first headed and then scaled.
gloss: To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]
gloss: To form a head.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This kind of cabbage heads early.
To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
gloss: To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to head a nail
gloss: To cut off the top of; to lop off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to head trees
gloss: To behead; to decapitate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
If you head, and hang all that offend that way
but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a
Commission for more heads
gloss: To go in front of.
pos: verb
examples: to head a drove of cattle
to head a person
gloss: To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
pos: verb
examples: The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
gloss: To check or restrain.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
gloss: To set on the head.
pos: verb
examples: to head a cask
Related words: ahead
knucklehead
railhead
smackhead
Derived words: behead
double-head
head for the hills
head off
where the puck is heading
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