The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromnucha“spinal cord; nape of the neck”
- Middle English · inherited fromnucha
- English todaynucha
From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”), borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”). Doublet of nuque.
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinnucha all →
nuque
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.