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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "nacken" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "nacken" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Intresting word. In english there is the word “nape” but this is kind of obscure and off the top of my head i remember it mainly being used in conjunction with the word neck rather than alone. As in “the nape of the neck”.
I learnt Hals as throat but looking at the wikipedia article on Giraffe and it seems Hals is the generic word for the area between the head and shoulders.
Throat i associate with the inside and the front.
In english if you say “my throat hurts” you might mean
Rachenentzündung (some kind of throat infection) but if you say “my neck hurts” it could be because you slept in a weird position but you wouldn’t ever think this was an infection.
Could “mein Hals tut weh” refer to both these possibilities or is it clearly referring to one?
Anyway, its a beautiful day but i’m stuck inside as I injured my foot yesterday : /
Yeah, “Mein Hals tut weh” is unclear and contextual.
I think first gues would be throat, but if you have a hint of context that the person did gymnastics, then it’d be neck.
Sorry for the foot injury, I hope it was at least worth it :). Gute Besserung!
Danke!Zum Glück ist es nicht zerbrocken und ich kann wieder ohne schwere Schmerzen gehen !
Super!! Gute Besserung weiterhin!
“(That refers to the outside and to the muscles, but NOT the spine.)”
Does this mean if that if the bones in my neck hurt (my cervical spine) for example, I don’t use “Nacken” ? If yes then what should I use? “Hals”?
And If I say:
“Mein Nacken tut mir weh.”
What does that imply?
I think my note was a bit too extreme, so I modified it a bit.
If someone says that their Nacken hurts I’d assume it’s the muscles in the rear of the neck and the upper part of the shoulders.
Of course it could also be the spine, but for “breaking the neck” for example, the word would be “das Genick” not “der Nacken”.
A doctor would call the whole thing HWS which is short for “Halswirbelsäule” (neck-spine).
There’s also “Schweinenacken”, which is a meat dish made from the neck and “Stiernacken” which is a word for a person with super big upper traps.