nek

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See also: nec, neck, -nek, нек, -nék, and NEK

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans nek. Doublet of neck.

Noun

nek (plural neks)

  1. (geography, South Africa) A col (a dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks).

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nek (plural nekke)

  1. (anatomy) neck

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch nacke, necke, from Old Dutch *nakko, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô.

Noun

nek m (plural nekken, diminutive nekje n)

  1. (narrow sense) Nape of the neck.
  2. (broad sense) Neck.
    Synonym: hals
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: nek
  • Negerhollands: nek
  • →? Aukan: neki
  • → Papiamentu: nèk, nek

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

nek

  1. inflection of nekken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin nec, used in identical fashion (nec...nec). Compare Italian né, French ni, Spanish ni.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

nek

  1. neither, nor
    Antonym: kaj
    nek ... nek ...
    neither ... nor ...
    Li estas nek altkreska nek malaltkreska.
    He is neither tall nor short.
    • 1910, J. A. Mitchell, translated by Lehman Wendelld, La lasta Usonano‎:
      La Usonanoj posedis nek literaturon, nek arton, nek muzikon proprajn.
      The Americans possessed neither literature, nor art, nor their own music.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto nek, Latin nec.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

nek

  1. neither, nor

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

nek (Jawi spelling نيق, informal 1st possessive nekku, 2nd possessive nekmu, 3rd possessive neknya)

  1. grandmother

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Further reading

Middle English

Noun

nek

  1. Alternative form of nekke

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

Pronunciation

Noun

nek n (definite singular neket, indefinite plural nek, definite plural neka or nekene)

  1. a sheaf
    Synonym: kornband

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

Pronunciation

Noun

nek n (definite singular neket, indefinite plural nek, definite plural neka)

  1. a sheaf
    Synonym: kornband
  2. (derogatory) a simpleton
  3. the same as jolenek

References

  • “nek” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “nek”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • “nek” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Old Javanese

Etymology

Akin to Malay naik.

Verb

nek

  1. to ascend, to go up

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nekъ. Compare Polish niech and Slovak nech.

Particle

nek

  1. let, may

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English neck.

Noun

nek

  1. (anatomy) neck, throat

Volapük

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nek

  1. no one, nobody

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin 牛.

Pronunciation

Noun

nek

  1. cow, cattle

References

  • Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN

Yurok

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nek

  1. first person singular pronoun; I
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