hartnäckig

Bahuvrīhi compound of hart (“hard”) +‎ Nacken (“neck”) +‎ -ig (adjective suffix), literally “one with a hard, inflexible neck”.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/ (standard)

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• IPA^(key): /-ˌnɛkɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: hart‧nä‧ckig

hartnäckig (strong nominative masculine singular hartnäckiger, comparative hartnäckiger, superlative am hartnäckigsten)

1. obstinate, stubborn
2. (figurative) indelible

• Hartnäckigkeit

• stur, beharrlich

• “hartnäckig” in Duden online
• “hartnäckig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (2002) “hartnäckig”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN