neck
要点首
意味
- (人間・動物の)首;首の骨
- (衣服の)えり
- 首の形をした物
- (食品としての)(羊などの)頚肉(けいにく)
- キスして愛撫(あいぶ)し合う
例文
My neck snapped when my car was hit from behind.
車で後ろから追突された時首がガクッとなりました。
The girl threw her arms around her father's neck.
少女は父親の首に抱きついた。
Huh? My neck feels weird. It seems I slept funny.
あれ?首がおかしい。寝違えたみたい。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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”). 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”).