Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate. · To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. · To drink or swallow rapidly. · To decrease in diameter.
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. · The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts. · The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck. · The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hnakkô Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō Old English hnecca Middle English nekke English neck From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionnekkeenm
- Inherited-form mentionhneccaang
- Inherited-form mention*hnakkōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hnakkôgem-pro · nape, neck
- Derivation mention*knog-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionneksco · neck
- Cognate mentionneekfrr
- Cognate mentionNäkkestq · neck
- Cognate mentionnekkefy · neck
- Cognate mentionneknl · neck
- Cognate mentionNackende · nape of the neck
- Cognate mentionnakkeda · neck
- Cognate mentionnackesv · nape of the neck
- Cognate mentionhnakkiis · neck
- Cognate mentionkñukxto · neck, nape
- Cognate mentionhnoccang · hook, penis
- Cognate mentioncnwchcy · joint, knob
- Cognate mentionknaūķislv · dwarf
- Doublet mentionneken
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