heafod – Old English noun declension

Noun: heafod
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	hēafod
Plural	hēafdu

Genitive

Singular	hēafdes
Plural	hēafda

Dative

Singular	hēafde
Plural	hēafdum

Accusative

Singular	hēafod
Plural	hēafdu

Sample Sentences

late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost"
Mīn hēafod hē hæfþ mid his ċeaflum befangen. (It has seized my head in its jaws.)
late 10th century, Ælfric, "THE PASSION OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL"
Ic bidde eow, wendað min heafod adune, and astreccað mine fét wið heofonas weard: ne eom ic wyrðe þæt ic swa hangige swa min Drihten. (I beseech you, turn my head down, and stretch my feet towards heaven: I am not worthy to hang as my Lord.)

Nouns inflected like heafod

heafod,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą, from Proto-Indo-European *káput-.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian hāved, Old Saxon hōƀid, Dutch hoofd, Old High German houbit, Old Norse hǫfuð, and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸 (haubiþ). The Germanic source is related to Latin caput and Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla), though the Sanskrit cognate doesn't directly come from *káput-, but rather its first element. See: Dutch Nouns 'hoofd', Old Norse Nouns 'hǫfuð', Gothic Nouns '𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸', Latin Nouns 'caput'.