The word "capitalize" comes from "capital," meaning "head," and is associated with importance, material wealth, assets and advantages.
Initially called Rose Hill, it was renamed Parramatta, an Aboriginal word meaning "head of waters," the year after it was proclaimed a town in 1790.
The name Wheeling supposedly is derived from a Delaware Indian term meaning "head" or "skull," a reference to the beheading of a party of settlers.
In the jungles of Guatemala, archaeologists were able in 2010 to identify nearly a hundred structures at the lost Mayan city of Holtun (meaning "head of stone").
He is worshipped to this day by Rastafarians, who take their name from "Ras", meaning "head" or "duke", and "Tafari", being Selassie's original family name.
Apparently in spite of the fact that most penguins have black heads, the OED's compilers said Welsh coined the term from pen meaning head and gwyn meaning white.
The generic name Acrocephalus derives from the Greek akros, meaning "topmost", and kephale, meaning "head".
In Polish, it is named samogłów, meaning "head alone", because it has no true tail.
The specific epithet laticeps is derived from the Latin latus, meaning "broad", with the suffix ceps, meaning "head".
Many European and Asiatic names for cabbage are derived from the Celto-Slavic root cap or kap, meaning "head".
