different between nuch vs nucha

English

Etymology

aphetic form of not much

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t?/

Adverb

nuch (not comparable)

1. (surfing, slang, dated) Not much, hardly, barely, to an insignificant degree.

Interjection

nuch

1. (surfing, slang, dated) A response to the greeting/question What's up?

   Dude! Sup? - Nuch.

Anagrams

• Chun, unch, unch.

English

Etymology

From Middle English nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka, nuke (“spinal cord”), borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”).. Doublet of nuque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n(j)uk?/
• Hyphenation: nu?cha

Noun

nucha (plural nuchae)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) The spinal cord.
2. (anatomy, zoology, dated, rare) The back of the neck, the nape; of an animal: the back of the head or the portion of the body behind the head.

Alternative forms

• nuke

Derived terms

• nuchal
• nuchal ligament

References

Anagrams

• chaun

Latin

Alternative forms

• nucra, nocra

Etymology

From a mix of Arabic ??????? (nu???, “spinal marrow”) and ???????? (nuqra, “hollow of the neck”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu.k?a/, [?n?k?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.ka/, [?nu?k?]

Noun

nucha f (genitive nuchae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) nape

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: nuca
• ? Middle English: nucha, nuche, nuca, nuka
  • English: nucha
• ? Old French: nuche
  • Middle French: nuque, nuche
    • ? English: nuque
    • French: nuque
• ? Italian: nuca
• ? Portuguese: nuca
• ? Spanish: nuca

Further reading

• Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie?^[1] (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 188–193