köken: Inherited from Old Spanish pescueço, with the first part deriving from the Latin prefix post and the second from an earlier coço; compare Galician pescozo and Portuguese pescoço.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescoço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from post- (“after”) + *coccius (“nape”). Cognate with Portuguese pescoço and Spanish pescuezo.
aile: pescozada
Et o Cçide leuãtouse et tomou o leõ pelo pescoço, bẽ com̃o se fosse hũu alaao manso
1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 4
Etimoloji
18th century, but probably older. Generally explained as a reinterpretation (as a diminutive) of Schlafittichen, dative plural of obsolete Schlafittich, itself from an underlying *Schlagfittich, from schlagen (“to strike, thrash”) + Fittich (“wing of a bird”), from the way a bird is grabbed by its thrashing wings. This requires that the word is of Central or Low German origin and that southern…