nek

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

• Ken, Ken., ken

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nek (plural nekke)

1. (anatomy) neck

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: nek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

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

• geelnekara
• langnek
• nekken
• nekkramp
• nekschot
• nekslag
• nekvel

 

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

• ken, enk

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nek]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: nek

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^[1]:

     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

• IPA^(key): /nɛk/

Conjunction

nek

1. neither, nor

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nek/
• Rhymes: -ek
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ne̞ʔ]

Noun

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

1. grandmother

See also

• nenek (full)

Further reading

• “nek” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Noun

nek

1. Alternative form of nekke

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːk/

Noun

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

1. a sheaf

   Synonym: kornband

References

• “nek” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “nek” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neːk/

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

• neka

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

• IPA^(key): /nek/

Pronoun

nek

1. no one, nobody

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin 牛.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɘˠ]

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

• IPA^(key): /nek/, [nɛ̞k]

Pronoun

nek

1. first person singular pronoun; I