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English word neighbour comes from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (Neighbour.), Old English gebur (Inhabitant; farmer, husbandman.)
*nēhwagabūrô (Proto-Germanic)
Neighbour.
gebur (Old English)
Inhabitant; farmer, husbandman.
nēahġebūr (Old English)
neihebur (Middle English)
neighbour (English)
(intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.. (transitive) To be adjacent to. To associate intimately with; to be close to. (biblical) a fellow human being. A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.. One who is near in [...]