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nek

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Neku.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Neku terms

Borrowed from Afrikaans nek. Doublet of neck.

nek (plural neks)

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

• Ken, Ken., ken

From Dutch nek.

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nek (plural nekke)

1. (anatomy) neck

• IPA^(key): /nɛk/

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• Hyphenation: nek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

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

nek m (plural nekken, diminutive nekje n)

1. (narrow sense) nape of the neck
2. (broad sense) neck

   Synonym: hals

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nek

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

• ken, enk

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

• IPA^(key): /nek/

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• Rhymes: -ek
• Hyphenation: nek

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.

Borrowed from Esperanto nek, Latin nec.

• IPA^(key): /nɛk/

nek

1. neither, nor

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

nek (Jawi spelling نيق)

1. grandmother

• nenek (full)

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

nek

1. alternative form of nekke

nek

1. just

• nek tsi (“but”)

• Michelson, Gunther, Michelson, Karin, Canadian Deer, Glenda (2024) A Dictionary of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) with Connections to the Past, University of Toronto Press, page 233

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

• IPA^(key): /neːk/

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

1. a sheaf

   Synonym: kornband

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

Likely from Swedish nek. See also Danish neg.

• IPA^(key): /neːk/

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

• “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

Akin to Malay naik.

nek

1. to ascend, to go up

• neka

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

nek

1. let, may

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

nek m

1. a sheaf

   Synonym: kärve

From English neck.

nek

1. (anatomy) neck, throat

• IPA^(key): /nek/

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.

From Mandarin 牛.

• IPA^(key): [nɘˠ]

nek

1. cow, cattle

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

• IPA^(key): /nek/, [nɛ̞k]

nek

1. first person singular pronoun; I