neck – English noun declension

English noun forms of neck

Noun: neck
Singularneck
Pluralnecks

Sample Sentences

  • Giraffes have long necks.
  • Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it. [2019 October 15, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, quoting You, Disco Elysium, →OCLC:]
  • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:]
  • a neck forming the journal of a shaft
  • to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
  • Shorty throw neck like a geese
  • She make me speak Portuguese [2016, “Pimptations”, performed by Smino:]
  • She drop neck for a check and a paystub [2018, “Florida Thang”, in The South Got Something To Say, performed by Pouya:]
  • The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands [1837, R. A. R., The Everyday Book, page 1169:]
  • "The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years. [1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 266:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *hnakkô
3. Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō
4. Old English hnecca
5. Middle English nekke
6. English neck
7. 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”).
8. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'nekke', Old English Nouns 'hnecca', Dutch Nouns 'nek', German Nouns 'Nacken', Danish Nouns 'nakke', Swedish Nouns 'nacke', Icelandic Nouns 'hnakki', Old English Nouns 'hnocc'.

Verbs referencing "neck"

French Nouns neck, Swedish Nouns nacke, Irish Nouns cnoc, Danish Nouns nakke, German Nouns Genick.