Here is a site about ukuleles or ukeleles written in Japanglish. The parts of the uke include the Kneck. Of course it looks as if the uke is Hawaiian, so that’s in the direction of Japan.
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Weblog on German-English legal translation, no longer from Fürth
ukulele (ju:k@’leIli:). Also ukelele. [a. Hawaiian `ukulele, f. `uku flea + lele jumping: see quot. 1957.] A small four-stringed Hawaiian guitar that is a development of a Portuguese instrument introduced to the island c 1879.
However, 1913 R. Brooke Coll. Poems (1918) 28 Somewhere an eukaleli thrills and cries.