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Bavarian
Etymology
Cf. German Genick. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
G'nack n
- nape of the neck
References
- Hügel, Fr. S. (1873) Der Wiener Dialekt. Lexkion der Wiener Volkssprache. (Idioticon Viennense.) (in German), Wien. Pest. Leipzig.: A. Hartleben’s Verlag, page 68: “G’nack, das Genick.”
- Loritza, Carl (1847) Neues Idioticon Viennense, das ist: Die Volkssprache der Wiener mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen Landesdialekte (in German), Wien und Leipzig: Josef Stöckholzer v. Hirschfeld, page 75: “Knack (das), f. Genick.”