hlav
Hlav is a linguistic root found in several Slavic languages that carries the general sense of head or chief, and by extension of primary or main. In modern usage, forms based on this root appear as noun stems or as parts of adjectives and compound terms that denote importance, leadership, or the front position of something.
The root is traced to the common Slavic word glava meaning head. Across languages this root has
In Czech, hlava means head, while hlavní denotes main or principal, as in hlavní město for the