nyak

See also: nyák

Hungarian

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *ńᴕkkɜ (“neck”).^[1]^[2]

nyak (plural nyakak)

(anatomy) neck (the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals)
neck (the part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck)
neck (the tapered part of a bottle toward the opening)
(music) neck (the extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted)

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	nyak	nyakak
accusative	nyakat	nyakakat
dative	nyaknak	nyakaknak
instrumental	nyakkal	nyakakkal
causal-final	nyakért	nyakakért
translative	nyakká	nyakakká
terminative	nyakig	nyakakig
essive-formal	nyakként	nyakakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	nyakban	nyakakban
superessive	nyakon	nyakakon
adessive	nyaknál	nyakaknál
illative	nyakba	nyakakba
sublative	nyakra	nyakakra
allative	nyakhoz	nyakakhoz
elative	nyakból	nyakakból
delative	nyakról	nyakakról
ablative	nyaktól	nyakaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	nyaké	nyakaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	nyakéi	nyakakéi

Compound words

Expressions

^ Entry #650 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ nyak in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)