Showing posts with label head heafod old english latin caput greek kefalo cefalu cephalonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label head heafod old english latin caput greek kefalo cefalu cephalonia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

head and its cognatives

Head was originally heafod in old english.

Derived originally from PIE *kauput

Cognatives in other indo-european language are

German;hsupt
Latin;caput
greek kefalo?
Sanskrit;kaput

placenames possibly connected are
cefalu
cephalonia