Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hnakkô

Etymology
From, , from.

Kroonen reconstructs an etymon, which he connects with 🇨🇬. 🇨🇬 might retain a trace of the original genitive. Compare 🇨🇬, which Kroonen suggests is borrowed from Germanic.

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

Noun

 * 1)  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.