defile (very narrow path, especially in mountainous terrain) · strait; bottleneck; shortage; shortfall (difficult situation where there is a lack of ressources or space)
çekim: çoğul Engpässe · tamlayan Engpasses
köken: From eng (“narrow”) + Pass (“path through mountains”).
köken: From Latin collum, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolsom, derived from the root *kʷel- (“to turn”). Cognate with French cou, Galician and Portuguese colo, Sicilian coḍḍu, Spanish cuello.
aile: a rompicollo, collana, colletto, collino, collo a dolcevita, collottola, scavezzacollo, torcicollo, tra capo e collo, tracollare
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀮 (gala) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit गल (gala). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Cognate with Latin gula (“throat”), English gullet, and Persian گلو (galu, “throat”). Cognate with Konkani गळो (gaḷo), Marathi गळा (gaḷā).
neck (part of the body connecting the head and the trunk) · neck, throat (narrow or tapered part of something inanimate) · lead; distance between a frontrunner and the other competitors
çekim: çoğul kaulat · tamlayan kaulan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kakla (compare Estonian kael), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *kaklas (compare Lithuanian kaklas). Distant doublet of chakra, kekri, and sykli.
köken: Uncertain. Either from earlier gâlt, from Proto-Slavic *gъltъ, related to *glъtati (“to swallow, devour”) (compare Slovene golt), or from Latin guttura, which may have resulted in a plural form *gâturi, reduced to gât as a singular form through analogy. Compare French goitre. It is also possible that it may derive from the Latin singular form, guttur, itself. Compare guturai, which preserved the…
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)
çekim: çoğul nyakak
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Uralic *ńᴕkkɜ (“neck”).
neck (the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals) · thinner part between two main parts, or the main part and the opening · neck (extension of stringed instrument)
çekim: çoğul vratȏvi · tamlayan vratȗ
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vortъ. First attested in the 16th century.
aile: čutiti srce pod vratom, čutiti srce v vratu, debelovrȃtən, do vratu, iztegovati vrat, koreninski vrat, na vrat na nos, nastaviti nož na vrat, obesiti na vrat, ovrȃtən
neck · throat · tapered, constricted part of an object or organ
çekim: çoğul kakli · tamlayan kakla
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kaklas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷokʷlo-s (a variant of *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”)), a reduplicated form of *kʷel- (“to turn; to move”) (whence also celis (“knee”), q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian kãklas, Proto-Germanic *halsaz (Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals), German Hals).
neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk) · neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body) · cervix (necklike portion of any part)
çekim: çoğul colos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Compare Portuguese colo and Spanish cuello.
aile: coller no colo, levar no colo
Et por esta razõ sempre andou en andas et en colo dos omes ata que morreu.
köken: Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قفا (compare Turkish kafa (“head”)), from Arabic قَفَاء (qafāʔ, “back of the neck”). However, the term is seen first in Buzuku's writings in 1555, and is present in the Arbëresh dialect as well, which usually does not have Turkish loans.