Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hnakkô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”), from *ken- (“to press, pinch, buckle, kink”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Kroonen reconstructs an etymon Proto-Indo-European *knékō, which he connects with Tocharian A kñuk (“neck”). German Hunke (“hillock”) might retain a trace of the original genitive. Compare Proto-Celtic *knukkos (“protuberance; hill”), which Kroonen suggests is borrowed from Germanic.[1]

Compare also the suffix *-kô, found in names of several other body parts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxnɑk.kɔːː/

Noun

*hnakkô m

  1. (anatomy) the back of the neck; nape

Inflection

According to Kroonen, this noun had root vowel ablaut, resulting in a nominative singular in *hnekkô, a genitive singular in *hnukkaz, and an accusative plural in *hnakkunz.[2]

Declension of *hnakkô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *hnakkô *hnakkaniz
vocative *hnakkô *hnakkaniz
accusative *hnakkanų *hnakkanunz
genitive *hnakkiniz *hnakkanǫ̂
dative *hnakkini *hnakkammaz
instrumental *hnakkinē *hnakkammiz
  • *hnakkaz

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hnekkan- ~ *hnakka(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 167-169
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