Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/haubudą

Etymology
From earlier, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

The original form in Germanic was, 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 or. The diphthong may be due to metathesis, if one reconstructs the original paradigm nominative ~ genitive.

The same root but with an alternate ending also appears in Germanic: (e.g. 🇨🇬). The presence of initial *-a- in both and  remains unexplained.

Noun

 * 1) head

Descendants
From : From : From or :
 * (in