lap (upper legs of a seated person) · neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk) · neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)
çekim: çoğul colos
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Cognate with Galician colo, Spanish cuello, Italian collo, and French cou.
köken: From a Proto-Indo-European *h₂grem- (“to gather”), which may be an extended form of *h₂ger- (“idem”), with the original sense of the Latin likely "armload, embrace". Compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *grā́mas (“bunch”), Ancient Greek ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”), Proto-Slavic *gromada (“heap, pile”), Lithuanian grùmulas (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *krimmaną (“to push, crumble”). See also grex (“flock,…
From Old Norse skaut (“corner of a square cloth; corner of a sail or sheet; flap, skirt of a cloak; lap; a square piece of a cloth, kerchief”), akin to Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), German Schoß.