niska

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pääkallo aivot otsa silmä nenä suu leuka poski korva ohimo takaraivo kaula niska
ihmisen pää (“human head”) Click on labels in the image.

From Proto-Finnic *niska. Cognate with Ingrian niska, Karelian niska, Veps nišk, nisk and Votic niskõ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniskɑ/, [ˈnis̠kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iskɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): nis‧ka

niska

1. (anatomy) nape, the back of the neck
2. a load bearing horizontal support column in a building
3. the upper end of koski (“a series of small waterfalls”) (the place where the rapid flow begins)

• “niska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• askin, kansi, kasin, kisan, sakin

From Proto-Finnic *niska. Cognates include Finnish niska and Veps nišk.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈniskɑ/, [ˈnis̠k]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈniskɑ/, [ˈniʃkɑ]
• Rhymes: -isk, -iskɑ
• Hyphenation: nis‧ka

niska

1. nape (back of the neck)

Declension of niska (type 3/kana, k- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	niska	nisat
genitive	nisan	niskoin
partitive	niskaa	niskoja
illative	niskaa	niskoi
inessive	nisas	nisois
elative	nisast	nisoist
allative	nisalle	nisoille
adessive	nisal	nisoil
ablative	nisalt	nisoilt
translative	nisaks	nisoiks
essive	niskanna, niskaan	niskoinna, niskoin
exessive1)	niskant	niskoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 341

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʲiska/

niska

1. nominative feminine singular of niski

From Proto-Algonquian *neska.

• IPA^(key): [nɪsˈkʌ]
• Hyphenation: nis‧ka

niska anim (plural niskak, augmentative misiniska, Syllabics ᓂᐢᑲ)

1. goose

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• H. C. Wolfart (1996) “Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language”, in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 17, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, page 437
• Jean L. Okimâsis (2018) Cree: Language of the plains‎^[2], University of Regina Press, →ISBN, page 316

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲis.ka/

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• Rhymes: -iska
• Syllabification: nis‧ka

niska

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of niski