Word for today - neighbor.
I confess that my spelling of this particular word can be questionable at times. Which is how I ended up thinking - why is that we spell the word similar to the sound made by a horse that is happy and free?
Not that I eavesdrop on too many horses, just saying.
So here's what Etymology Online has to say - it has German origin with an original meaning of "near dweller" - neah + gebur.
What interested me was the reference as a common Gmnc compound. Hence the Dutch reference na(bur) . [Bur can roughly mean a dwelling or living area of a group of people in Dutch].
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