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Ћн крљпко обхватќл шљю сІна.
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He threw his arms around his son's neck, and hugged him.
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Егћ шљя былђ чёрная от загђра.
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His neck was brown from the sun.
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NB
When the word шљя functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier, the construction шљя у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
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Шљя у негћ былђ чёрная от загђра.
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His neck was brown from the sun.
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неподвќжная шљя
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a stiff neck
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поворђчиваться [no Pf.]: у Ng шљяn не поворђчивается
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N's neck does not move
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У негћ окостенљние позвонћчника, шљя не поворђчивается.
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He has calcification of the vertebrae; he can't move his neck.
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свќхивать/свихнџть Nd/(себљd) шљюa
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to strain N's/one's neck
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сломђть [no Impf.] Nd/(себљd) шљюa
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to break N's/one's neck
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свернџть [no Impf.] шљюa Nd
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to wring N's neck
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NB
N is usually a bird. When N is a person, the phrase shown above represents a threat:
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Пџсть тћлько попрћбует! МІ свернём емџ шљю.
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Just let him try! We'll wring his neck!
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дђть [no Impf.] Nd по шљеd Colloquial;
двќнуть [no Impf.] Nd по шљеd Colloquial
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to give N one on the neck, to hit N on the neck
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NB
The above expressions are usually used as a threat.
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Сейчђс кђк дђм (or двќну) по шље!
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Watch out! I'll give you one in the neck!
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вљшать/повљсить Na
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to hang N
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вљшаться/повљситься
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to hang oneself
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шђрф; кашнљ
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a scarf
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бџсы; ожерљлье
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a necklace
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цепћчка
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a chain
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висљть [no Pf.]: бџсыn (or ожерљльеn, or шђрфn, etc.) висїт (or висќт) на шљеp
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a necklace (or a scarf, etc.) is around one's neck, is hanging from one's neck
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бІть [no Pf.]: на шљеp у Ng бІл шђрфn (or бІло кашнљn, etc.)
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N was wearing a scarf, etc.
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обвїзывать/обвязђть шљюa шђрфомi (or кашнљi, etc.);
повїзывать/повязђть шљюa шђрфомi (or кашнљi, etc.)
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to wrap a scarf, etc., around one's neck
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наклонїть/наклонќть шљюa;
сгибђть/согнџть шљюa
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to bend one's neck
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NB
Compare the above phrase with гнџть шљю перед Ni "to kowtow," e.g. Ћн привІк гнџть шљю перед начђльством. "He's used to kowtowing before his superiors."
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вытїгивать/вІтянуть шљюa
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to stretch one's neck
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NB
The above is usually used when one is trying to examine something.
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поворђчивать/повернџть шљюa
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to turn one's neck
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обхвђтывать/обхватќть шљюa Ng;
обхвђтывать/обхватќть Na за шљюa
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to hold onto N by the neck, to put one's arms around N's neck
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обнимђть/обнїть Na за шљюa
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to hug N (with the arms around the neck)
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Онђ обнялђ отцђ за худџю, жќлистую шљю.
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She hugged her father by his thin, sinewy neck.
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держђться [no Pf.] за шљюa
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to hold onto someone's neck
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кидђться/кќнуться (or бросђться/ брћситься) Nd на шљюa
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to throw oneself on N's neck
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вќснуть/повќснуть на шљеp
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to hang on someone's neck
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NB
The above phrase with вќснуть на шљеp also has a figurative meaning: it is said of a woman who obsessively expresses her feelings of affection for a man.
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...неизвљстного вћзраста человљк — существћ с жќлистой птќчьей шљей и... с осћбенно блљдными, прозрђчно-восковІми, большќми ушђми. [З. Гќппиус, Благоухђние седќн; о Победонћсцеве]
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...a man of indeterminate age — a creature with a sinewy bird-like neck and... with large, very pale, waxy-transparent ears. [Z. Gippius, Sweet Old Age; about Pobedonostsev]
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И когдђ мІ выхћдим, шофёр, ширћкий пђрень в бљлой рубђхе с мћщной корќчневой шљей, отвћдит в стћрону рџку Олљга с рублём... [Ю. Карабчиљвский, Тоскђ по Армљнии]
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And as we were getting out, the driver, a broad-shouldered fellow whose white shirt exposed a powerful, brown neck, pushed Oleg's hand with a ruble in it aside... [Yu. Karabchievskiy, Homesick for Armenia]
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Костлївая шљя Пирамидћнова почемџ-то вызывђла не жђлость, а желђние отвернџться или спрїтать её кђк-нибудь — закџтать её в шђрф, чтћ ли, или поднїть емџ воротнќк пальтћ.
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For some reason, Piramidonov's bony neck did not evoke pity, but rather a desire to turn away, or to hide it somehow — wrap it up in a scarf, maybe, or raise the collar of his coat.
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