nek

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

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Afrikaans nek. Doublet of neck.

Noun

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nek (plural neks)

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

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch nek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nek (plural nekke)

  1. (anatomy) neck

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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nek m (plural nekken, diminutive nekje n)

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

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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nek

  1. inflection of nekken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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

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Conjunction

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto nekLatin nec.

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nek

  1. neither, nor

Malay

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

  1. grandmother

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Middle English

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Noun

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nek

  1. Alternative form of nekke

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

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Noun

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

  1. a sheaf
    Synonym: kornband

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

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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

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  • “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

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Etymology

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Akin to Malay naik.

Verb

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nek

  1. to ascend, to go up

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Particle

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nek

  1. let, may

Swedish

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Etymology

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from Old Swedish nekir, see also Danish neg. Related to Finnish nikuli, perhaps ultimately from Old Norse hnykill 'ball of yarn'.

Noun

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nek m

  1. a sheaf
    Synonym: kärve

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English neck.

Noun

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nek

  1. (anatomy) neck, throat

Volapük

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Pronoun

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nek

  1. no one, nobody
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:
      Nek kanon dünön sölis tel.
      Nobody can serve two masters.

Wutunhua

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Etymology

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From Mandarin .

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nek

  1. cow, cattle

References

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

Yurok

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nek

  1. first person singular pronoun; I