nakkur

Faroese

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hnakka-, related to *hnakkô (“back of the neck”).

Noun

nakkur m (genitive singular naks, plural nakkar)

1. high (and steep) promontory with flat summit

Declension

m10	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nakkur	nakkurin	nakkar	nakkarnir
Accusative	nakk	nakkin	nakkar	nakkarnar
Dative	nakki	nakkinum	nøkkum/ nakkum	nøkkunum/ nakkunum
Genitive	naks	naksins	nakka	nakkanna

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hnekkan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 234