Hnecca
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hnecca
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- hnecca
- Add: -- Hnecca occipitium, Wrt. Voc. i. 282, 41 : occiput, ii. 63, 22 : cervix, posteriora colli, Txts. 110, 1165. Hnecca (snecca, MS.) occipitium, 82, 720. 'Befleh ǣrest ǣnne þwang þām biscope fram þām hneccan oþ þone hōh (a vertice usque ad calcaneum and him ꝥ heáfod syþþan of āceorf' . . . Sume men gesetton ꝥ ācorfene heáfod eft tō dām sweóran (cervici), Gr. D. 198, 4-12. Sege him ꝥ mē sȳ ꝥ heáfod fram þām hneccan ācorfen, Ap. Th. 8, 17. Þæs hneccan āhylt eádmōdnyss cuius ceruicem inclinat humilitas, Scint. 20, 2.