The Old High German form nihhus also meant "crocodile", while the Old English nicor could mean both a "water monster" like those encountered by Beowulf, and a "hippopotamus". In Middle Low German, it was called necker and in Middle Dutch nicker (compare also Nickel or Nikkel plus Kobolt). The Icelandic and Faroese nykur are horselike creatures. In Old Danish, the form was nikke and in modern Danish and Norwegian Bokmål it is nøkke/ nøkk. The Swedish form is derived from Old Swedish neker, which corresponds to Old Icelandic nykr ( gen. The form neck appears in English and Swedish ( näck or nek, meaning "nude"). They are related to Sanskrit nḗnēkti, Greek νίζω nízō and νίπτω níptō, and Irish nigh (all meaning to wash or be washed). The names are held to derive from Common Germanic * nikwus or * nikwis(i), derived from PIE *neigʷ ("to wash"). For the video game, see Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Similar creatures are known from other parts of Europe, such as the Melusine in France, the Xana in Asturias (Spain), and the Slavic water spirits (e.g. The German Nixe was a female river mermaid. The German Nix and his Scandinavian counterparts were male. Their sex, bynames, and various transformations vary geographically. The related English knucker was generally depicted as a worm or dragon, although more recent versions depict the spirits in other forms. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are perhaps best known from Scandinavian folklore. The Nixie, Nixy, Nix, Näcken, Nicor, Nøkk, or Nøkken ( German: Nixe Dutch: nikker, nekker Danish: nøkke Norwegian Bokmål: nøkk Nynorsk: nykk Swedish: näck Faroese: nykur Finnish: näkki Icelandic: nykur Estonian: näkk Old English: nicor English: neck or nicker) are humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore.
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