Etymology

necklet

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Today it means: A necklace. Full definition →

English neck ← Middle English nekke ← Old English hnecca
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*hnakkô
  2. Proto-West Germanic*hnakkō
  3. Old Englishhnecca
  4. Middle Englishnekke
  5. Englishneck
  6. English todaynecklet

From neck + -let.

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